



Produced by David Widger





THE HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF GEORG EBERS



CONTENTS:
   Uarda
   An Egyptian Princess
   The Sisters
   Joshua
   Cleopatra
   The Emperor
   <DW25> Sum
   Serapis
   Arachne
   The Bride Of The Nile
   A Thorny Path
   In The Fire Of The Forge
   Margery
   Barbara Blomberg
   A Word Only A Word
   The Burgomaster's Wife
   In The Blue Pike
   A Question
   The Elixir
   The Greylock
   The Nuts
   The Story Of My Life (Autobiograpy)




UARDA

A ROMANCE OF ANCIENT EGYPT

Translated from the German by Clara Bell




Volume 1.

                       DEDICATION.

        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 Thine it is; without these lines from me.




PREFACE.

In the winter of 1873 I spent some weeks in one of the tombs of the
Necropolis of Thebes in order to study the monuments of that solemn city
of the dead; and during my long rides in the silent desert the germ was
developed whence this book has since grown. The leisure of mind and body
required to write it was given me through a long but not disabling
 illness.

In the first instance I intended to elucidate this story--like my
"Egyptian Princess"--with numerous and extensive notes placed at the end;
but I was led to give up this plan from finding that it would lead me to
the repetition of much that I had written in the notes to that