PRUS Boleslaw - Pharaoh (illustrations by Jan Marcin SZANCER)

The writer, who deals primarily with current social issues in his works, in Pharaoh reached for the model of the historical novel, trying to interpret the meaning of historical changes. The title character of the work, Pharaoh Ramses XIII, young, ambitious and sensitive to human injustice, wants to reform the state, including by limiting the power of the Egyptian priests. For him, Egypt is a building whose walls are made up of people, and the pharaoh - only the architect of the whole. Thus, he becomes an enemy of Herhor and other priests, who by all means try to defend their position and property. Alone in the struggle, he gradually realizes that in political games people are not always guided by the idea of justice....

Publisher: P.I.W., 1989.
Format: 235 x 170 mm, 668 pages.

Beautiful, carefully prepared edition, decorated with unique illustrations by master Jan Marcin Szancer.

Hardcover, cloth-covered, with paper wrapper.
Piece in very nice condition, attached wrapper tattered.