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The World's Desire
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- about 312
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- Literature & Fiction
- Language
- English
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From the opening
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I. THE SILENT ISLE
CHAPTER II. THE VISION OF THE WORLD’S DESIRE
CHAPTER III. THE SLAYING OF THE SIDONIANS
CHAPTER IV. THE BLOOD-RED SEA
CHAPTER V. MERIAMUN THE QUEEN
CHAPTER VI. THE STORY OF MERIAMUN
CHAPTER VII. THE QUEEN’S VISION
CHAPTER VIII. THE KA, THE BAI, AND THE KHOU
BOOK II.
CHAPTER I. THE PROPHETS OF THE APURA
CHAPTER II. THE NIGHT OF DREAD
CHAPTER III. THE BATHS OF BRONZE
CHAPTER IV. THE QUEEN’S CHAMBER
CHAPTER V. THE CHAPEL PERILOUS
CHAPTER VI. THE WARDENS OF THE GATE
CHAPTER VII. THE SHADOW IN THE SUNLIGHT
CHAPTER VIII. THE LOOSING OF THE SPIRIT OF REI
CHAPTER IX. THE WAKING OF THE SLEEPER
CHAPTER X. THE OATH OF THE WANDERER
CHAPTER XI. THE WAKING OF THE WANDERER
BOOK III.
CHAPTER I. THE VENGEANCE OF KURRI
CHAPTER II. THE COMING OF PHARAOH
CHAPTER III. THE BED OF TORMENT
CHAPTER IV. PHARAOH’S DREAM
CHAPTER V. THE VOICE OF THE DEAD
CHAPTER VI. THE BURNING OF THE SHRINE
CHAPTER VII. THE LAST FIGHT OF ODYSSEUS, LAERTES’ SON
CHAPTER VIII. “TILL ODYSSEUS COMES!”
The period in which the story of The World’s Desire is cast, was a
period when, as Miss Braddon remarks of the age of the Plantagenets,
“anything might happen.” Recent discoveries, mainly by Dr. Schliemann
and Mr. Flinders Petrie, have shown that there really was much
intercourse between Heroic Greece, the Greece of the Achaeans, and the
Egypt of the Ramessids. This connection, rumoured of in Greek legends,
is attested by Egyptian relics found in the graves of Mycenae, and by
very ancient Levantine pottery, found in contemporary sites in Egypt.
Homer himself shows us Odysseus telling a feigned, but obviously not
improbable, tale of an Achaean raid on Egypt. Meanwhile the sojourn of
the Israelites, with their Exodus from the land of bondage, though not
yet found to be recorded on the Egyptian monuments, was probably part
of the great contemporary stir among the peoples.
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