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The Pharaoh and the Priest
by Bolesław PRUS (1847 - 1912)Chapter XIII
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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Chapter L , Chapter LI , Chapter LII , Chapter LIII , Chapter LIV , Chapter LIX , Chapter LV, part 1 , Chapter LV, part 2 , Chapter LVI , Chapter LVII, part 1 , Chapter LVII, part 2 , Chapter LVIII , Chapter LX , Chapter LXI, part 1 , Chapter LXI, part 2 , Chapter LXII , Chapter LXIII , Chapter LXIV , Chapter LXV, part 1 , Chapter LXV, part 2 , Chapter LXVI , Chapter LXVII , Chapter XIV , Chapter XIX , Chapter XL , Chapter XLI, part 1 , Chapter XLI, part 2 , Chapter XLII , Chapter XLIII , Chapter XLIV , Chapter XLIX , Chapter XLV , Chapter XLVI , Chapter XLVII , Chapter XLVIII , Chapter XV , Chapter XVI , Chapter XVII , Chapter XVIII , Chapter XX , Chapter XXI , Chapter XXII , Chapter XXIII , Chapter XXIV , Chapter XXIX , Chapter XXV , Chapter XXVI , Chapter XXVII , Chapter XXVIII , Chapter XXX , Chapter XXXI , Chapter XXXII , Chapter XXXIII , Chapter XXXIV , Chapter XXXIX , Chapter XXXV , Chapter XXXVI , Chapter XXXVII , Chapter XXXVIII