FARAON (PHAROAH) by Boleslaw Prusand then we have
Pharaoh by Boleslaw PrusI think the first one is in Polish, the second one might be in English. Prices range from $3 to $3,000. Not sure if I am going to order a copy (the $3 version) or not. Looks like there might be other versions as well.
It's kind of a famous book. Wikipedia has an article about it:
Pharaoh (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus (1847–1912). Composed over a year's time in 1894–95, serialized in 1895–96, and published in book form in 1897, it was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history.
Pharaoh 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'[1] 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."[2]Makes it sound kind of interesting.
St. Kinga's Chapel, deep in the Wieliczka salt mine |
The Romans, of course , had to bear FOUR spellings , viz:-
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Yes, I expect that ferro if pronounced the same as Faro. The other three might be names for iron, but I don't think they are pronounced the same.
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