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List of Abbreviations.........................................................xi Introduction by William Kelly Simpson.........................................1 PART I NARRATIVES AND TALES OF MIDDLE EGYPTIAN LITERATURE.....................11 King Cheops and the Magicians.................................................13 The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant..............................................25 The Shipwrecked Sailor........................................................45 The Story of Sinuhe...........................................................54 PART II LATE EGYPTIAN STORIES.................................................67 The Quarrel of Apophis and Seknenre...........................................69 The Capture of Joppa..........................................................72 The Tale of the Doomed Prince.................................................75 The Tale of the Two Brothers..................................................80 The Contendings of Horus and Seth.............................................91 The Blinding of Truth by F ... read full excerpt from Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry; Third Edition ebook