Novelette e-books (1h to read) of Georg Ebers

CHAPTER XX. As Nemu, on his way back from his visit to Ani, approached his mistress's house, he was detained by a boy, who desired him to follow him to the stranger's quarter.

Volume 6. CHAPTER V. The Minorite had gone.

Volume 1. Translated by Clara Bell PREFACE.

An hour later, Ani, in rich attire, left his father's tomb, and drove his brilliant chariot past the witch's cave, and the little cottage of Uarda's father.

Volume 1. Translated by Clara Bell PREFACE.

THE HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF GEORG EBERS UARDA A ROMANCE OF ANCIENT EGYPT Translated from the German by Clara Bell DEDICATION.

Volume 5. CHAPTER XVII. During all these hours Orion had been in the solitude of his own rooms.

Volume 2. CHAPTER V. Pontius had gone to the steward's room, with a frowning brow, but it was with a smile on his strongly-marked lips, and a brisk step that he returned to his work-people.

Volume 5. CHAPTER XXII.

CHAPTER I. Deep silence brooded over the water and the green islands which rose like oases from its glittering surface.

Volume 9. CHAPTER XXIII.

Volume 5. While the market place in Tennis was filling, Archias's white house had become a heap of smouldering ruins.

Volume 4. CHAPTER XVI. The day had flown swiftly for Dada under the roof of Medius; there were costumes and scenery in wonderful variety for her to look over; the children were bright and frien...

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Volume 1. Translated from the German by Mary J. Safford PREFACE.

CHAPTER I. Half a lustrum had elapsed since Egypt had become subject to the youthful power of the Arabs, which had risen with such unexampled vigor and rapidity.

Volume 2. CHAPTER VII. In the very midst of the white wall with its bastions and ramparts, which formed the fortifications of Memphis, stood the old palace of the kings, a stately structure bui...

Volume 4. CHAPTER XVI. "Poor Wolf!"

Volume 5. CHAPTER XX. Gorgo, when she had left her grandmother, could not rest.

Volume 6. CHAPTER V. At the third hour after sunrise a distinguished assemblage of people gathered at the landing place east of the Temple of Poseidon in the great harbour of Alexandria.

Volume 3. CHAPTER X. "When the moon is over Pelican Island."

Volume 7. CHAPTER VIII. Without a word of explanation, Hermon dragged his guide along in breathless haste.

Volume 4. CHAPTER XIV. Outside the door of the tent Hermon was trying to banish Althea's image from his mind.

Volume 2. CHAPTER III. The guests were all gone.

Volume 3. CHAPTER XII. During the singing in the chapel on the fast day Barbara had waited vainly for a word of appreciation from the Emperor.

Volume 9. CHAPTER XXVI The lady Euryale's silent prayer was interrupted by the return of Alexander.

Once upon a time there was a country, more beautiful than all other lands and the castle of the Duke, its ruler, lay beside a lake that was bluer than the deepest indigo.

Homo Sum,

CHAPTER I. The sun sometimes shone brightly upon the little round panes of the ancient building, the Golden Cross, on the northern side of the square, which the people of Ratisbon call "on the moo...

Volume 8. Hermon, filled with longing, went down toward evening to the shore.

Every Leipziger knows well the tall gabled house in the Katherinenstrasse which I have in mind.

Volume 2. CHAPTER IV. The ropedancer, Kuni, really had been with the sick mother and her babes, and had toiled for them with the utmost diligence.

Volume 9. CHAPTER XI. According to the law of Egypt, Zopyrus had deserved death.

Volume 8. CHAPTER XXIII.

Volume 3. CHAPTER XI. Herdegen was to be back in Padua before Passion week, and I shall remember with thankfulness to the day of my death the few months after worthy Veit Spiesz's burial and be...

Volume 2. CHAPTER IV. The house facing the garden of the Paneum, where Barine lived, was the property of her mother, who had inherited it from her parents.

Volume 5. CHAPTER XXI.

Volume 4. CHAPTER XXI.

Volume 10.

Volume 12.

CHAPTER I. "A word, only a word!"

Volume 2. CHAPTER V. As her father had ordered the servants not to disturb the young girls, Els did not wake till the sun was high in the heavens.

Volume 8. CHAPTER XIX. Night brought little sleep to Cleopatra.

Volume 6. CHAPTER XXV.

Volume 3. CHAPTER X. One person only besides Sir Seitz Siebenburg had not been deceived--the young knight Boemund Altrosen, whose love for Cordula was genuine, and who, by its unerring instinct...

Volume 2. CHAPTER VII. A second and third rainy day followed the first one.

[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them.

Volume 2. In the extreme northern portion of the little city of Tennis a large, perfectly plain whitewashed building stood on an open, grass-grown square.

Volume 11.

Volume 3. CHAPTER VIII. The sun had passed the meridian when Melissa and Andreas left the house.