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An Egyptian romance of the present time, full of the charm of the land of the Nile and dramatic in plot and setting. The book is a most creditable romance vibrant with human nature and the mystery and fascination of the East.
The Last Egyptian. L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919). Published anonymously during Baum's lifetime as he did not want his adult adventure stories to detract from his children's fantasy stories, the story takes the limited points of view of three protagonists in the field of Egyptology.
2600 BC: Construction of the First True Pyramids Was Begun. Pyramid of Menkaure, Cairo, Egypt. About the year 2613, Sneferu founded the 4th Dynasty. During his reign from 2613–2589 BC, he is known to have built three large pyramids. The first was built at Meidum that is about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Cairo.
3.34. 50 ratings11 reviews. This was the only adventure novel (set in contemporary Egypt with some fantasy trappings) and the last adult work of fiction of L. Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard of Oz, published eleven years after he wrote Mother Goose in Prose which first introduced a little girl by the name of Dorothy. Genres FictionClassics.
The sun fell hot upon the bosom of the Nile and clung there, vibrant, hesitating, yet aggressive, as if baffled in its desire to penetrate beneath the river’s lurid surface.
2 set 2009 · Egyptian monuments were considered public works created for the state and used both skilled and unskilled Egyptian workers in construction, all of whom were paid for their labor. Workers at the Giza site, which was only one of many, were given a ration of beer three times a day and their housing, tools, and even their level of health care have all been clearly established.
The Last Egyptian is the movie adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1908 novel of the same name. The film was completed late in 1914 and exhibited for audiences in December of that year. After the commercial failure and distribution problems that greeted the Oz Film Manufacturing Company's first three fantasy movies, the company took a different approach with its fourth effort. The Last Egyptian is ...
