William M. Hutchins
Author
Series
Cairo trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Description
533 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 248
Pub. Date
©2001.
Physical Description
xliii, 1,313 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy of colonial Egypt is the story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife Amina, his cloistered...
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...
