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Caesar and Cleopatra
Contributor(s): Shaw, George Bernard (Author), 1st World Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1421807394     ISBN-13: 9781421807393
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
OUR PRICE: $28.30  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2005
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 822.912
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.80 lbs) 180 pages
Features: Dust Cover
 
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you would not guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace; and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern English officers: for example, they do not dig up the corpses of their dead enemies and mutilate them, as we dug up Cromwell and the Mahdi. They are in two groups: one intent on the gambling of their captain Belzanor, a warrior of fifty, who, with his spear on the ground beside his knee, is stooping to throw dice with a sly-looking young Persian recruit; the other gathered about a guardsman who has just finished telling a naughty story (still current in English barracks) at which they are laughing uproariously. They are about a dozen in number, all highly aristocratic young Egyptian guardsmen, handsomely equipped with weapons and armor, very unEnglish in point of not being ashamed of and uncomfortable in their profess-sional dress; on the contrary, rather ostentatiously and arrogantly warlike, as valuing themselves on their military caste.
 
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