Phao faraon biography books

1895 novel by Bolesław Prus

Pharaoh (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus (1847–1912). 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.

Pharaoh has been described by Czesław Miłosz as a "novel on... mechanism[s] of state power and, as such, ... probably unique in world literature of the nineteenth century....

Amazon.com: Faraon (Polish Edition): 9788311156746: Prus ...

Prus, [in] selecting the reign of 'Pharaoh Ramses XIII' [a fictitious character]^[1] in the eleventh century BCE, sought a perspective that was detached from... pressures of [topicality] and censorship. Through his analysis of the dynamics of an ancient Egyptian society, he... suggest[s] an archetype of the struggle for power that goes on within any state."^[2]

Pharaoh is set Faraon by Bolesław Prus - Goodreads LEMI