The Last Egyptian
by L. Frank Baum
Today's Egyptian novel is full of charm from the land of the Nile and is dramatic in the plot and setting. The book is the most revealing novel, alive with the mystery and magic of human nature and the East. A young Englishman with a rich fortune and a passion for Egyptology visits the village of Al-Qusiye because of the rumor that the old hands and jewels came from the sheikh. There, he meets Kara, a descendant of the great Atka-Ra, and Lord Roan, the granddaughter of Princess Hattcha, who conquered London at the age of seventeen, and who divorced his wife for her sake, but refused to marry. She was the mother of their daughter Kara. Lord Roan's grandson was the only unselfish, honest love of his life, and he and his daring son were given government positions in Cairo, where he met and wanted to marry the grandchildren of the Englishman and Kara. Jealousy, betrayal, conspiracy and the opposing team rush against the background of old tradition and faith. This is a story about a blood feud in which an Egyptian prince - to avenge his grandmother's wrongs - confronts the love of an Englishman for having blood for having a woman who was his cousin.
