Georg Ebers: 263 books

Excerpt: "“What I have told you perhaps does not belong to the school-room; but, my lads, this battle is still far from being ended, and though you must occupy the school-benches for a while, you are the future soldiers. Lowing, remain behind, I have something to say to you.” He slowly turned...

Excerpt: "It was long since a hotter season had afflicted the land; and the Nile, whose rising had been watched for on the Night of Dropping—the 17th of June—with the usual festive preparations, had cheated the hopes of the Egyptians, and instead of rising had shrunk narrower and still narrower...

The author takes you right into the experience of the day to day life of the hoi paloi in Alexandria and then into the insane chaos of the city being overrun and the Library and beautiful temples finally destroyed. (Goodreads)

Excerpt: "If the author should be told that the sentimental love of our day was unknown to the pagan world, he would not cite last the two lovers, Antony and Cleopatra, and the will of the powerful Roman general, in which he expressed the desire, wherever he might die, to be buried beside the woman...

Excerpt: "Margery Schopper was born in the year of our Lord 1404, on the Tuesday after Palm Sunday. My uncle Christan Pfinzing of the Burg, a widower whose wife had been a Schopper, held me at the font. My father, God have his soul, was Franz Schopper, known as Franz the Singer. He died in the night...

Pharao Amasis will einen dauerhaften Frieden in seinem Reich am Nil erhalten. Um den immer mächtiger werdenden Persern entgegen zu kommen, bietet er dem persischen Thronfolger seine hübsche Tochter Nitetis zur Frau an. Sein Sohn, den die Priester um den kleinen Finger gewickelt haben um ihre Ziele...