Arachne — Volume 04
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy historical fiction set in ancient Rome and Greece
- Researchers reading Ebers's works systematically
- Language learners who need public-domain English electronic texts
- Readers interested in nineteenth-century English translations of German novels
Not a good fit for
- General readers hoping to start with this volume on its own
- Beginners who need modern annotation and an introduction
- Readers who prefer fast-paced plots and short reads
Reading tips
- Read the earlier volumes or an overall summary of Arachne before starting this one.
- Keep a character chart and update it as you read to reduce confusion in a multi-volume narrative.
- Treat it as historical fiction, not a historical source, and verify background details elsewhere.
- Adjust font size and line spacing on an e-reader to ease the strain of plain-text formatting.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Georg Ebers (1837–1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. Born in Berlin in 1837, he served as a professor at the University of Leipzig. His major contribution to Egyptology was the discovery, editing, and publication of the famous Ebers Papyrus, which provided valuable material for the study of ancient medical texts. At the same time, he devoted himself to spreading Egyptological knowledge through literature, writing historical novels such as An Egyptian Princess and Uarda. These works weave the social life and historical settings of ancient Egypt into their narratives, making specialized scholarship more accessible to general readers. His works number 172 in the library's collection, including the serialized volumes of An Egyptian Princess and Cleopatra, which shows how widely his historical novels circulated. Overall, Ebers combined scholarly rigor with a novelist's gift for popular expression, occupying a distinctive place in the popularization of Egyptology in the nineteenth century.
