• Egypt and Its Monuments by Robert Hichens; original Sphinx painting by Jules Guérin
  • أهرام الجيزة — الصورة التاريخية الافتتاحية.
  • أهرام الجيزة — لوحة أصلية لجول غيران.
  • من قمة الهرم الأكبر — صورة فوتوغرافية تاريخية.
  • الهرم المدرّج بسقارة — لوحة أصلية لجول غيران.
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Egypt and Its Monuments — Robert Hichens | 60 Original Illustrations

Egypt and Its Monuments — Robert Hichens | 60 Original Illustrations

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Illustrated opening preview — The Pyramids

The Pyramids of Ghizeh — historical photograph
The Pyramids of Ghizeh. From a Photograph. Original opening illustration.
The Pyramids of Ghizeh — original painting by Jules Guérin
The Pyramids of Ghizeh — original painting by Jules Guérin.
From the summit of the Great Pyramid — original historical photograph
From the summit of the Great Pyramid — original historical photograph.
The Step Pyramid of Sakkara — original painting by Jules Guérin
The Step Pyramid of Sakkara — original painting by Jules Guérin.

Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild your life with the drowsy gold of romance, to lose a creeping sorrow, to forget that too many of your hours are sullen, gray, bereft? What do you wish of Egypt?

Journey from the Pyramids and the Sphinx to the temples of the Nile and Old Cairo with Robert Hichens. His evocative account of Egypt’s monuments is accompanied by Jules Guérin’s color paintings and historical photographs.

  • Complete English text in 18 chapters
  • All 60 original illustrations: 20 paintings, including the frontispiece, and 40 photographs, with original captions and credits
  • Reflowable EPUB with adjustable text, clickable contents and a linked list of illustrations
  • Original-art cover featuring Guérin’s painting The Sphinx; historical cover and title-page images retained inside
  • Based on the illustrated 1923 edition of The Century Co., New York; first published October 1908

— From Chapter I, “The Pyramids.”

Edition note: This is a reflowable reading edition, not a first-edition facsimile. The work was also issued as The Spell of Egypt. The author’s period language, colonial attitudes and archaeological interpretations are retained as historical material.

Language: English. Format: EPUB download; no physical book or audiobook. Suitable for EPUB reading apps including Apple Books, Kobo and Calibre.

Prepared from Project Gutenberg ebook 63737, where the source is freely available. The source identifies the historical content as public domain in the United States; status elsewhere may differ. No exclusive copyright claim is made over the original text or illustrations.

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