The Emperor — Complete. Georg Ebers
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Georg Ebers
The Emperor — Complete
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664633828
Table of Contents
Alexandria was in the greatest excitement.
PREFACE.
It is now fourteen years since I planned the story related in these volumes, the outcome of a series of lectures which I had occasion to deliver on the period of the Roman dominion in Egypt. But the pleasures of inventive composition were forced to give way to scientific labors, and when I was once more at leisure to try my wings with increase of power I felt more strongly urged to other flights. Thus it came to pass that I did I not take the time of Hadrian for the background of a tale till after I had dealt with the still later period of the early monastic