EGYPTIAN ADVENTURES

by Olivia Coolidge ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A special item- this collection of original short stories is set in the period of Egypt's New Kingdom and seems to take its realism from a pretty vivid reconstruction of life as it actually was at the time. Collectively, the stories have various regional and social backgrounds, but their common trait is a study of characters as they react to situations. ""The Feast of Cats"" tells of an inter-city rivalry during a festival and how a young wife is saved from her kidnappers by the favor of the cat goddess, Bast; ""The Carpenter's Daughter"" is on the age old theme of a go-between in a love match but with Theban atmosphere; ""The Black Magician"" is a sorcerer's son's harsh account of an injury received at the hand of his father and how he escapes to become an artist when his father tries a second time to make him rob a tomb. Bitter-sweet as life, these have a marked originality and make a bid for the author's recognition as a serious writer. Joseph Low's (Mother Goose Riddle Rhymes) drawings have caught the spirit of Egyptian art.

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Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: FICTION