Georg Ebers

Titles in Fiction category:

• Arachne

  Deep silence brooded over the water and the green islands which rose like oases from its glittering surface. The palms, silver poplars, and sycamores on the largest one were already casting longer shadows as the slanting rays of the sun touched their dark crowns, while its glowing ball st ...

• Barbara Blomberg

  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 moor"; sometimes it was veiled by gray clouds. A party of nobles, ecclesiastics, and knights belonging to t ...

• Blue Pike, The

  "May a thunderbolt strike you!" The imprecation suited the rough fellow who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely lowered the strange tones of his voice, yet of all the rabble who surrounded him only two persons understood his meaning--a fading, sickly girl, ...

• Bride of the Nile, The

  The "Bride of the Nile" needs no preface. For the professional student I may observe that I have relied on the authority of de Goeje in adhering to my own original opinion that the word Mukaukas is not to be regarded as a name but as a title, since the Arab writers to which I have made re ...

• Burgomaster's Wife, The

  BARONESS SOPHIE VON BRANDENSTEIN, nee EBERS.

• Cleopatra

  If the author should be told that the sentimental love of our day was unknown to the pagan world, he would not cite last the two lovers, Antony and Cleopatra, and the will of the powerful Roman general, in which he expressed the desire, wherever he might die, to be buried beside the woman ...

• Egyptian Princess, An

            Aut prodesse volunt ant delectare poetae,
            Aut simul et jucunda et idonea dicere vitae.
                 Horat. De arte poetica v. 333.

• Elixir, The

  Every Leipziger knows well the tall gabled house in the Katherinenstrasse which I have in mind. It stands not far from the Market Place, and is particularly dear to the writer of this true story because it has been in the possession of his family for a long time. Many curious things have ...

• Emperor, The

  It is now fourteen years since I planned the story related in these volumes, the outcome of a series of lectures which I had occasion to deliver on the period of the Roman dominion in Egypt. But the pleasures of inventive composition were forced to give way to scientific labors, and when ...

• Fire Of The Forge, The

  On the eve of St. Medard's Day in the year 1281, the moon, which had just risen, was shining brightly upon the imperial free city of Nuremberg; its rays found their way into the street leading from the strong Marienthurm to the Frauenthor, but entrance to the Ortlieb mansion was barred by ...

• Homo Sum

  In the course of my labors preparatory to writing a history of the Sinaitic peninsula, the study of the first centuries of Christianity for a long time claimed my attention; and in the mass of martyrology, of ascetic writings, and of histories of saints and monks, which it was necessary t ...

• Joshua

  Last winter I resolved to complete this book, and while giving it the form in which it now goes forth into the world, I was constantly reminded of the dear friend to whom I intended to dedicate it. Now I am permitted to offer it only to the manes of Gustav Baur; for a few months ago death ...

• Margery

  "Pietro Giustiniani, merchant, of Venice." This was the signature affixed to his receipt by the little antiquary in the city of St. Mark, from whom I purchased a few stitched sheets of manuscript. What a name and title!

• Question, A

            In the Art-Palace on green Isar's strand,
            Before one picture long I kept my seat,
            It held me spellbound by some magic band,
            Nor when my home I sought, could I forget.
  
            A year elapsed, came winter's frost and snow,
            'Twas rar

• Serapis

  The busy turmoil of the town had been hushed for some hours; the moon and stars were keeping silent watch over Alexandria, and many of the inhabitants were already in the land of dreams. It was deliciously fresh--a truly gracious night; but, though peace reigned in the streets and alleys, ...

• Sisters, The

  By a marvellous combination of circumstances a number of fragments of the Royal Archives of Memphis have been preserved from destruction with the rest, containing petitions written on papyrus in the Greek language; these were composed by a recluse of Macedonian birth, living in the Serape ...

• Thorny Path, A

  The green screen slowly rose, covering the lower portion of the broad studio window where Heron, the gem-cutter, was at work. It was Melissa, the artist's daughter, who had pulled it up, with bended knees and outstretched arms, panting for breath.

• Uarda

          Thou knowest well from what this book arose.
          When suffering seized and held me in its clasp
          Thy fostering hand released me from its grasp,
          And from amid the thorns there bloomed a rose.
          Air, dew, and sunshine were bestowed by Thee,
          And 

• Word Only A Word, A

  "A word, only a word!" cried a fresh, boyish voice, then two hands were loudly clapped and a gay laugh echoed through the forest. Hitherto silence had reigned under the boughs of the pines and tops of the beeches, but now a wood-pigeon joined in the lad's laugh, and a jay, startled by the ...

Titles in Non-Fiction category:

• Story Of My Life From Childhood To Manhood, The

                 TO MY SONS.
  
          When I began the incidents of yore,
          Still in my soul's depths treasured, to record,
          A voice within said: Soon, life's journey o'er,
          Thy portrait sole remembrance will afford.
  
          And, ere the last hour also strikes fo

Titles in Short Stories category:

• Greylock, The

  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. A long time ago the Knight Wendelin and his squire George chanced upon this lake, but they found nothing save waste f ...

• Nuts, The

  The wounded colonel, whom we were nursing back to health in our house, was not allowed to walk long, and in the after noon, after he had pottered about a little, he was obliged to rest in the comfortable old easy-chair, which was known as grandfather's chair.