Alexandria under the first Ptolemies: a sculptor takes a girl of Tennis as his model for Arachne, the mortal who challenged a goddess at the loom and was punished for winning. Ebers was an Egyptologist who wrote fiction to pay for excavations; this late novel is about art and hubris, and the weaving, the guilds and the harbour are all reconstructed from what he had personally dug up.
Englisch
The Burgomaster's Wife
Barbara Blomberg
Joshua
In the Blue Pike
The Sisters
In the Fire of the Forge : A Romance of Old Nuremberg
A Word, Only a Word
The Elixir
Der Tempel von Serapis: Historischer Roman
Die schöne Kleopatra: Historischer Roman
Der Friedhof ohne Gleichen und vierzig auferstandene Könige : Bereicherte Ausgabe. Geheimnisse vergessener Gräber und mysteriöse Pharaonenabenteuer
Wildfire
The Cloister and the Hearth
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
A Cumberland Vendetta
The Heart's Highway : A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The Lady of Blossholme
The Trampling of the Lilies
The Companions of Jehu
Frederick the Great and His Family : A Historical Novel
Elissa : Or, The Doom of Zimbabwe
The Men of the Moss-Hags : Being a History of Adventure Taken from the Papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway
The Elixir