Caesar and Cleopatra
de George Bernard Shaw
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- ISBN 10
- 0140481001
- ISBN 13
- 9780140481006
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From the book: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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- Librería
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 41491
- Título
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- Autor
- George Bernard Shaw
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market Paperback
- Estado del libro
- USED Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0140481001
- ISBN 13
- 9780140481006
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Ny
- Fecha de publicación
- June 1950
- Páginas
- 14
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