Egypt - Couverture souple

Loti, Professor Pierre

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1596056002 ISBN 13 : 9781596056008

Editeur : Cosimo Classics, 2005

Synopsis

The dwelling-places of the Apis, in the grim darkness beneath the Memphite desert, are, as all the world knows, monster coffins of black granite ranged in catacombs, hot and stifling as eternal stoves. -from "Chapter VI: In the Tombs of the Apis" Called one of the finest descriptive writers of his day, and certainly one of the most original, French writer and sailor Pierre Loti traveled the world in the late 19th century and painted what he saw in prose acclaimed as extraordinarily rhythmic and lyrical. This 1909 novel is a dreamlike reverie of a journey through Egypt just before it became overrun by Western tourists. For readers today, it serves as a window into a world forever lost. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Loti's Between Two Opinions. French writer LOUIS MARIE JULIEN VIAUD (1850-1923), aka Pierre Loti, served in the French navy, his experiences in which were the basis of much of his writing. He is also the author of An Iceland Fisherman, Madame Chrysantheme, and The Story of a Child.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

CHAPTER I A 'VINTER MIDNIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT SPHINX A NIGHT yondrously clear and of a colour unkno,yn to our clinlate; a place of drealnlike aspect, fraught 'with 111ystery. The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illunlines a ,vorld ,vhich surely is no longer ours; for it reselnbles in nothing ,vhat nlay be seen in other lands. A ,vorld in ,vhich everything is suffused ,vith rosy colour beneath the stars of midnight, and ,vhere granite symbols rise up, ghostlike and nl0tionless. Is that a hill of sand that rises yonder? One can scarcely tell, for it has as it ,vere no shape, no outline; rather it seems like a great rosy cloud, or some huge, trembling billow, which once perhaps raised itself there, forth,vith to become motionless for ever .... And from out this kind of mummified ,vave a colossal human effigy emerges, rose-coloured too, a nameless, elusive rose; emerges, and stares with fixed eyes and sll1iles. It is so huge it seems unreal

Table of Contents

CON1'ENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I A VINTER MIDNIGHT REFORE THE GREAT; SPHINX 3; II THE PASSING OF CAIRO I7; III THE MOSQUES OF CAIRO 3 I; IV THE HALL OF THE MUMMIES 43; V A CENTRE OF ISLAM 6 I; VI IN THE TOMBS OF THE Apls 77; VII THE OUTSKIRTS OF CAIRO 93; VIII ARCHAIC CHRISTIANITY lOS; IX THE RACE OF BRONZE II9; X A CHARMING LUNCHEON 131; XI THE DOWNFALL OF THE NILE 149; XII I~ THE TEMPLE OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE; AND JOY 163; XIII MODERN LUXOR 177; XIV A TWENTIETH-CENTURY EVENING AT THEBES 193; · VI Contents; CHAPTER PAGK; XV THEBES BY NIGHT 207; XVI THEBES IN SUNLIGHT 223; XVII AN AUDIENCE OF AMENOPHIS II 237; XVIII AT THEBES IN THE TEMPLE OF THE OGRESS 261; XIX A TOWN PROMPTLY EMBELLISHED 277; XX THE PASSING OF PHILlE 291; INDEX

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Translated from the French by W. P. Baines

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1596056002
• ISBN 13: 9781596056008
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible