Uarda (Annotated)

Set in Thebes during the reign of Ramesses II, Uarda is a historical romance that interweaves court intrigue, priestly power, social hierarchy, medicine, and forbidden affection in ancient Egypt. Ebers writes in the expansive nineteenth-century mode of archaeological fiction: richly descriptive, didactic, and attentive to ritual, costume, domestic life, and monumental space. The novel belongs to a...