Cleopatra Illustrated

By: Haggard, Henry Rider

Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is a novel written by the author H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines and She.The book was first printed in 1889.The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. The main character Harmachis (the living descendant of the pharaoh's bloodline) is charged by the Priesthood to overthrow the supposed impostor Cleopatra, drive out the Greeks and Romans and restore Egypt to its golden era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08F7XXX2W
• ISBN13: 9798673684375
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

“For love is of the Spirit and knows not death”–Harmachis.

First off, Henry Rider Haggard wrote this in an annoying, mocking Shakespearean English; I was hoping it was just the introductory pages. Unfortunately, it is from the front to the very end of the book. Once you get over the teeth-grinding attempt to sound archaic, the story is a well-woven historical novel. Haggard has a way of making you feel so much that you are there. Knowing the history, you are privileged to see the future that Harmachis, an Egyptian n-o-b-l-e, the true pharaoh of Egypt, does not see coming. Some versions are annotated, so what you get is the ideas of the annotator. Some versions are illustrated, which distracts from your imagination.