Caesar and Cleopatra; Antony and Cleopatra
by Shaw, (George) Bernard; Shakespeare, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Harwich Port, Massachusetts, United States
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Synopsis
From the book:An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them; but you would not guess that from their appearance. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace; and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern English officers: for example, they do not dig up the corpses of their dead enemies and mutilate them, as we dug up Cromwell and the Mahdi. They are in two groups: one intent on the gambling of their captain Belzanor, a warrior of fifty, who, with his spear on the ground beside his knee, is stooping to throw dice with a sly-looking young Persian recruit; the other gathered about a guardsman who has just finished telling a naughty story (still current in English barracks) at which they are laughing uproariously. They are about a dozen in number, all highly aristocratic young Egyptian guardsmen, handsomely equipped with weapons and armor, very unEnglish in point of not being ashamed of and uncomfortable in their profess-sional dress; on the contrary, rather ostentatiously and arrogantly warlike, as valuing themselves on their military caste.
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- Seller
- Rose's Books, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 005078
- Title
- Caesar and Cleopatra; Antony and Cleopatra
- Author
- Shaw, (George) Bernard; Shakespeare, William
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- LAURENCE OLIVIER VIVIEN LEIGH
- Bookseller catalogs
- Drama and Acting; Books Into Film;
Terms of Sale
Rose's Books, IOBA
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