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Pharaoh

Pharaoh
Bolesław Prus Original title Faraon (Polish, 1895)

Pharaoh is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus . Composed over a year's time in 1894–95, serialized in 1895–96, and published in book form in 1897, it was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history.

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“Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.”

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Pharaoh (1894–1895)

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