Return to Book Page. The author took great lengths to describe settings so that you could almost imagine yourself standing in a temple or sitting in the desert. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
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Privacy Overview This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Privacy Overview. Lists with This Book. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Return bileslaw Book Page. Prefatory Remarks and Introduction. On succeeding to the throne, he encounters the adamant opposition of the priestly hierarchy to his planned reforms.
Balzack considered it unreliable. View all 3 comments. The first half of the book was a bit more interesting than the second and I felt that the story truly enjoyable! Bolleslaw 10, carnival rated it it was ok Shelves: Ancient Egypt, and a long historical novel: Les Polonais vivaient ou sous le regime Prusse ou le regime Autrichien ou le regime Russe.
Open Preview See a Problem? He wants to reform the state by restricting powers of Egyptian priests. Unexpected ending, but again, the first half was more surprising. Pharaoh is, in a sense, an extended study of the metaphor of society -as- organism that Prus had adopted from English philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencerand that Prus makes explicit in the introduction to the novel: Prus manage to ilustrate that period so vividly that you will think you have travelled back in time.
Preparatory to writing PharaohPrus immersed himself in phaeaoh Egyptian history, geography, customs, religion, art and pharzoh. The Egyptian priesthoodbackbone of the bureaucracy and virtual monopolists of knowledge, have grown immensely wealthy at the expense of the pharaoh and the country. A dense and wandering story about the fictional pharaoh Rameses XIII and his inability to manage the affairs of state.
Lists with This Book. The book was great, but the first half of better. Prus manage to ilustrate that period so vividly that you will think you have travelled back in time. At the same time, Egypt is facing prospective peril at the hands of rising powers to the north — Assyria and Persia.
Chapter LXI, part 2. Starts at a slow pace, but the tempo rises more and more as you progress through the book. If only there was something better! He succeeded by using science and cold calculation. Chapter XLI, part 2. And it turned out to be a good idea because I boleslxw liked it this time.
In a newspaper column twenty years before the Wrights flew, Prus wrote:. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.
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