List of Historical Novels - Egypt

Egypt

  • The Absurdity of Fates by Naguib Mahfouz 1939 عبث الأقدار
  • Radopis by Naguib Mahfouz 1943 رادوبيس
  • The Struggle of Thebes by Naguib Mahfouz 1944 كفاح طيبة
  • The Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz 1985 العائش فى الحقيقة (the Pharaoh Akhenaten)
  • Cheops by Paul West (26th century BC)
  • Pharaoh by Bolesław Prus (fall of Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom)
  • Hypatia by Charles Kingsley (late Roman Egypt)
  • The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (early 20th century)
  • Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
  • The Egyptian by Mika Waltari (reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten)
  • Nefertiti: A Novel by Michelle Moran (Queen Nefertiti)
  • The Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George (reign of Cleopatra VII)
  • River God by Wilbur Smith
  • Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf (15th and 16th century)
  • No digas que fue un sueño by Terenci Moix (reign of Cleopatra VII)
  • El Ladrón de Tumbas by Antonio Cabanas
  • Child of the Morning by Pauline Gedge (reign of Hatshepsut)
  • Scroll of Saqqara by Pauline Gedge
  • La boca del Nilo by León Arsenal

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Famous quotes containing the word egypt:

    “The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with a terrifying display of power, and with signs and wonders; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 26:8.

    “Go down, Moses
    ‘Way down in Egypt land,
    Tell ole Pharaoh,
    To let my people go.”
    —Unknown. Go Down, Moses (l. 1–4)