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Mika waltari project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Miki waltari deftly uses a prose style evocative of ancient texts that is comparable to naguib mahfouzs work in modern egyptian literature. The civilization of the ancient fifth century bc mediterranean blossoms into life in mika waltari s outstanding historical novel of love, war, greed, and spiritual tumult. Mar 11, 2015 the egyptian by mika waltari my rating. Egipteanul by mika waltari 2 star ratings while studying, he contributed to various magazines and wrote poetry and stories, getting his first book published in it was first published in finnish inand in an abridged english translation by naomi walford infrom swedish rather than finnish. Unlike mahfouz, waltaris book is the first major novel set in ancient egypt during the 18th dynasty of the new kingdom in 14th century bc the egyptian, comibing history, research and imagination, is a. First published in the united states in 1949 and widely condemned as obscene, the egyptian outsold every other novel published that year, and remains a classic. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this book s net price to charity organizations. I do not write it to the glory of the gods in the land of kem, for i am weary of. Free download or read online the dark angel pdf epub book. The main characters of this historical, historical fiction story are. Beginning in ionia in 498 bc with the burning of the lydian capital, sardis, the story of lars turms sweeps across the mediterranean to delphi, athens, then sicily, before. He was a writer, known for omena putoaa 1952, komisario palmun erehdys 1960 and vmv 6 1936. This is the tale of an egyptian palace official called sinuhe, son of.
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