The Pyramid
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 5 September 2013
Language: eng
Translated from: alb
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780099560920
Copyright date: 1992
Description: When the new Egyptian Pharaoh decrees that he does not want a pyramid built in his honour his advisers are aghast. It is their firm belief that peace and prosperity only make the people more difficult to control – they must be kept under the whip. So the Pharaoh agrees to the construction of a pyramid colossal beyond imagining, an edifice that crushes dozens of people as each block is added and which inexorably drains the lifeblood from the country. As Egypt builds its monument to death, its neighbours plot and gloat…
Table of contents: label: Chapter I
title: Origins. An old idea resurrected with difficulty
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter II
title: Start of Works. Quite unlike the preparations for any other building site
pagenum: 10; label: Chapter III
title: Conspiracy
pagenum: 24; label: Chapter IV
title: Daily Chronicle. Right-hand face, western arris
pagenum: 32; label: Chapter V
title: The Pyramid Rises towards the Sky
pagenum: 40; label: Chapter VI
title: Dust of Kings
pagenum: 48; label: Chapter VII
title: Chronicle of Construction
pagenum: 58; label: Chapter VIII
title: Nearing the Summit
pagenum: 63; label: Chapter IX
title: The Winter of Universal Suspicion
pagenum: 75; label: Chapter X
title: Topping Out. Tbe Pyramid demands its mummy
pagenum: 81; label: Chapter XI
title: Sadness
pagenum: 87; label: Chapter XII
title: Profanation
pagenum: 93; label: Chapter XIII
title: The Counterpyramid
pagenum: 100; label: Chapter XIV
title: Ageing. A Pretence
pagenum: 108; label: Chapter XV
title: Skullstacks
pagenum: 113; label: Chapter XVI
title: Epilogue. Of a Transparent Kind
pagenum: 118