Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Donovan Pasha And Some People Of Egypt, Complete, by Gilbert Parker This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Donovan Pasha And Some People Of Egypt, Complete Author: Gilbert Parker Last Updated: March 14, 2009 Release Date: October 18, 2006 [EBook #6260] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DONOVAN PASHA *** Produced by David Widger DONOVAN PASHA AND SOME PEOPLE OF EGYPT By Gilbert Parker To the FOREWORD of this book I have practically nothing to add. It describes how the book was planned, and how at last it came to be written. The novel—'The Weavers'—of which it was the herald, as one might say, was published in 1907. The reception of Donovan Pasha convinced me beyond peradventure, that the step I took in enlarging my field of work was as wise in relation to my art as in its effect upon my mind, temperament and faculty for writing. I knew Egypt by study quite as well as I knew the Dominion of Canada, the difference being, of course, that the instinct for the life of Canada was part of my very being itself; but there are great numbers of people who live their lives for fifty or seventy or eighty years in a country, and have no real instinct for understanding.