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Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom

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by Naguib Mahfouz


  HUMPHREY DAVIES took first class honours in Arabic at Cambridge University and holds a doctorate in Near East Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. His translations from Egyptian literature range from the Ottoman period to the present day.

  This book is set in BEMBO which was cut

  by the punch-cutter Francesco Griffo

  for the Venetian printer-publisher

  Aldus Manutius in early 1495

  and first used in a pamphlet

  by a young scholar

  named Pietro

  Bembo.

  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

  Khufu's Wisdom Copyright © 1939 by Naguib Mahfouz

  English translation Copyright © 2003 by Raymond Stock

  Rhadopis of Nubia Copyright © 1943 by Naguib Mahfouz

  English translation Copyright © 2003 by The American University in

  Cairo Press

  Thebes at War Copyright © 1944 by Naguib Mahfouz

  English translation copyright © 2003 by Humphrey Davies

  Introduction Copyright © 2007 by Nadine Gordimer

  Bibliography and Chronology Copyright © 2007 by Everyman's Library

  Typography by Peter B. Willberg

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf,

  a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by

  Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random

  House, Inc., New York. Published in the United Kingdom by

  Everyman's Library, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street,

  London EC1V OAT, and distributed by Random House (UK) Ltd.

  US website: www.randomhouse.com/everymans

  eISBN: 978-0-307-49188-6

  A CIP catalogue reference for this book is available from the

  British Library

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