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Cleopatra
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- Narrator
- William Sutherland
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 January 2006
- Run Time
- 11 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Cleopatra lies asleep. One white, rounded arm makes a pillar for her head. The web of her dark hair falls over her like lace. Her limbs are draped in a robe so thin that the gleam of her flesh shines through it. Her rich lips are parted in a smile.
Harmachis looks down on her, and the sight of Cleopatra's beauty strikes the young Egyptian with all the power of a mortal blow. For a moment, Harmachis aches with grief—that he should have to kill a thing so lovely!
Critics Review
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“This outstanding, unabridged audiobook edition of Cleopatra is ably narrated by William Sutherland and is technically flawless in its recording.”
Reviewer’s Bookwatch
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“[Haggard] has imagined an ingenious answer to the questions suggested by the immense ruin of Antony and the Egyptian Queen…It is no small praise to Mr. Haggard that he has painted a Cleopatra that…has intellect, power, and feminine blandishments enough to account for her victories over sages and emperors.”
Literary World
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“The most ambitious of the its author’s works…it endeavors to paint for us anew a figure which the imagination of the civilized world has pondered over for many centuries…thrilling.”
Murray’s Magazine
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“[Haggard’s] most serious and his most brilliant work…not only immensely spectacular but artistically dramatic in every detail.”
Literary News
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Details
- Author
- H. Rider Haggard
- Narrator
- William Sutherland
- Duration
- 11 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 January 2006
- ISBN
- 9781481598545
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Adventure fiction, Classic fiction, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales
Synopsis
Cleopatra lies asleep. One white, rounded arm makes a pillar for her head. The web of her dark hair falls over her like lace. Her limbs are draped in a robe so thin that the gleam of her flesh shines through it. Her rich lips are parted in a smile.Harmachis looks down on her, and the sight of Cleopatra's beauty strikes the young Egyptian with all the power of a mortal blow. For a moment, Harmachis aches with grief—that he should have to kill a thing so lovely!
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