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H. Rider Haggard
Cleopatra
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664639370
Table of Contents
BOOK I—THE PREPARATION OF HARMACHIS
OF THE COMING OF CHARMION; AND OF THE WRATH OF SEPA
BOOK III—THE VENGEANCE OF HARMACHIS
OF THE LAST WRITING OF HARMACHIS, THE ROYAL EGYPTIAN
DEDICATION
My dear Mother,
I have for a long while hoped to be allowed to dedicate some book of mine to you, and now I bring you this work, because whatever its shortcomings, and whatever judgment may be passed upon it by yourself and others, it is yet the one I should wish you to accept.
I trust that you will receive from my romance of “Cleopatra” some such pleasure as lightened the labour of its building up; and that it may convey to your mind a picture, however imperfect, of the old and mysterious Egypt in whose lost glories you are so deeply interested.
Your affectionate and dutiful Son,
H. Rider Haggard.
January 21, 1889.
AUTHOR’S NOTE
The history of the ruin of Antony and Cleopatra must have struck many students of the records of their age as one of the most inexplicable of tragic tales. What malign influence and secret hates were at work, continually sapping their prosperity and blinding their judgment? Why did Cleopatra fly at Actium, and why did Antony follow her, leaving his fleet and army to destruction? An attempt is made in this