Joshua — Volume 2
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who have read Volume 1 and intend to proceed through the novel in order
- Literature enthusiasts interested in biblical subjects and nineteenth-century German historical fiction
- Students and teachers who need a public-domain English electronic text for excerpting or classroom supplementary reading
- Long-form readers who accept slow buildup and value the development of character relationships
Not a good fit for
- Readers who have not read Volume 1; this volume's characters and threads continue from the previous text, and starting here easily leads to confusion
- Beginners who need modern annotations, introductions, or detailed historical background
- Readers who prefer short or fast-paced narrative and lack patience for long buildup
Reading tips
- Be sure to read Volume 1 first, or at least review its main characters and events before entering this volume.
- While reading, build a character list and record each figure's stance and changing relationships to keep up with the ensemble narrative.
- Read alongside the relevant chapters of the biblical Book of Joshua to understand the source of the subject and its literary reworking.
- After every few chapters, briefly retell what has happened to avoid losing the main thread during the long buildup.
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.
