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The Pharaoh and the Priest

The Pharaoh and the Priest

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Number of Chapters: 73

Length: 26 hours and 23 minutes

Language: English

The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history. Pharaoh has been described by Czesław Miłosz as a "novel on mechanisms of state power and, as such, probably unique in world literature of the nineteenth century.... Prus, in selecting the reign of 'Pharaoh Ramses XIII' in the eleventh century BCE, sought a perspective that was detached from pressures of topicality and censorship. Pharaoh is set in the Egypt of 1087–85 BCE as that country experiences internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in the fall of its Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom. The young protagonist Ramses learns that those who would challenge the powers that be are vulnerable to co-option, seduction, subornation, defamation, intimidation and assassination. Perhaps the chief lesson, belatedly absorbed by Ramses as pharaoh, is the importance, to power, of knowledge. Prus' vision of the fall of an ancient civilization derives some of its power from the author's intimate awareness of the final demise of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, a century before the completion of the novel. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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Prefatory Remarks and Introduction (Piotr Nater)
Chapter I (MaryAnn)
Chapter II (Piotr Nater)
Chapter III (MaryAnn)
Chapter IV (ToddHW)
Chapter V (ToddHW)
Chapter VI (Alan Williams)
Chapter VII (Nadine Eckert-Boulet)
Chapter VIII (Rapunzelina)
Chapter IX (Rapunzelina)
Chapter X (Rapunzelina)
Chapter XI (DJRickyV)
Chapter XII (KHand)
Chapter XIII (Rapunzelina)
Chapter XIV (Saethon)
Chapter XV (Saethon)
Chapter XVI (Rapunzelina)
Chapter XVII (Rapunzelina)
Chapter XVIII (Rapunzelina)
Chapter XIX (Lynne T)
Chapter XX (Lynne T)
Chapter XXI (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXII (Arnie Horton)
Chapter XXIII (ReadAllDay)
Chapter XXIV (ReadAllDay)
Chapter XXV (ReadAllDay)
Chapter XXVI (ReadAllDay)
Chapter XXVII (ReadAllDay)
Chapter XXVIII (ReadAllDay)
Chapter XXIX (ReadAllDay)
Chapter XXX (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXI (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXII (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXIII (Lynne T)
Chapter XXXIV (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXV (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXVI (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXVII (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXVIII (Deon Gines)
Chapter XXXIX (Deon Gines)
Chapter XL (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLI, part 1 (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLI, part 2 (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLII (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLIII (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLIV (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLV (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLVI (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLVII (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLVIII (Deon Gines)
Chapter XLIX (Deon Gines)
Chapter L (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LI (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LII (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LIII (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LIV (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LV, part 1 (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LV, part 2 (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LVI (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LVII, part 1 (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LVII, part 2 (ReadAllDay)
Chapter LVIII (Deon Gines)
Chapter LIX (Lynne T)
Chapter LX (KHand)
Chapter LXI, part 1 (KHand)
Chapter LXI, part 2 (KHand)
Chapter LXII (Deon Gines)
Chapter LXIII (Deon Gines)
Chapter LXIV (Lynne T)
Chapter LXV, part 1 (Deon Gines)
Chapter LXV, part 2 (Deon Gines)
Chapter LXVI (rookieblue)
Chapter LXVII (Deon Gines)
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