Tawfīq Ḥakīm
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
xxxviii, 341 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The celebrated, revolutionary novel from a pioneering Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, now for the first time in Penguin Classics with a foreword by Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany. First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events leading up to the 1919 Egyptian revolution. Though often cited as an apprenticeship...
Author
Series
African writers volume 117
Pub. Date
[1973]
Physical Description
viii, 184 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
5) al-Warṭah
Author
Pub. Date
[between 1980 and 1989?]
Physical Description
176 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Arabic
Author
Series
Maktabat Tawfīq al-Ḥakīm al-shaʻbīyah volume 20
Pub. Date
1974.
Physical Description
192 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Arabic
8) Sijn al-ʻumr
Author
Pub. Date
[between 1970 and 1979?]
Physical Description
272 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Arabic
Description
Tawfiq al-Hakim, born probably in 1899, was, with such writters as Naguib Mahfouz and Taha Hussein, one of the great formative figures of twentieth-century Egyptian literature. Immensly prolific and versatile, he was the first Arab to acquire a literary reputation as a dramatist, and was the author of more than seventy plays of remarkable variety, as well as of a number of novels, short stories, and essays.
