num_pages: 628
description: Pharaoh is set in the Egypt of 1087–85 BCE as that country experiences internal stresses and external threats that will culminate in the fall of its Twentieth Dynasty and New Kingdom. The young protagonist Ramses learns that those who would challenge the powers that be are vulnerable to cooptation, seduction, subornation, defamation, intimidation and assassination. Perhaps the chief lesson, belatedly absorbed by Ramses as pharaoh, is the importance, to power, of knowledge.
language: English
title: Pharaoh
titlecomplete: Pharaoh
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Polish Literature, Egypt, Historical, Poland, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 2799
places: Egypt
series: Faraon / The Pharaoh and the Priest
publisher: Hippocrene Books