{"product_id":"9781784351434","title":"Faraon","description":"Faraon is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus (1847-1912). Composed over a year in 1894-95, it was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history.\u003cbr\u003ePharaoh has been described by Czesław Miłosz as a \"novel on... mechanism[s] of state power and, as such, ... probably unique in world literature of the nineteenth century.... Prus, [in] selecting the reign of 'Pharaoh Ramses XIII' in the eleventh century BCE, sought a perspective that was detached from... pressures of [topicality] and censorship. Through his analysis of the dynamics of an ancient Egyptian society, he... suggest[s] an archetype of the struggle for power that goes on within any state.\"","brand":"JiaHu Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47037727834352,"sku":"9781784351434","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784351434_p0.jpg?v=1763726078","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784351434","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}