Caesar and Cleopatra
by Bernard Shaw
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Altamonte Springs, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Hastings of Coral Springs (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8669
- Title
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- Author
- Bernard Shaw
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- DRAMA
- Bookseller catalogs
- DRAMA/PLAYS;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Hastings of Coral Springs
About the Seller
Hastings of Coral Springs
About Hastings of Coral Springs
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....