Cleopatra (Haggard novel)

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Cleopatra

Cover of the first edition
Author	H. Rider Haggard
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Adventure novel
Publisher	Longmans
Publication date	1889
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	316 pp
ISBN	1-55521-122-4
OCLC	16862670
Text	Cleopatra at Wikisource

Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is an adventure novel written by English author H. Rider Haggard and first printed in 1889 by Longmans.

Synopsis[]

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.

As is the case with the majority of Haggard's works,^{[citation needed]} the story draws heavily upon adventure and exotic concepts. The story, told from the point of view of the Egyptian priest Harmachis, is recounted in biblical language, being in the form of papyrus scrolls found in a tomb.

Reception[]

Boucher and McComas gave the novel a mixed review, saying that it combined "a not always believable portrait" of its title heroine with a "fascinating, wholly convincing" story line.^[1]

See also[]

• Harmachis
• Cleopatra, a 1917 film based on the novel

References[]

• Bleiler, Everett (1948). The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Chicago: Shasta Publishers. p. 112.

External links[]

• Cleopatra at Project Gutenberg
• Images and bibliographic information for various editions of Cleopatra at SouthAfricaBooks.com

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