- History, Fiction, Children's fiction, Egypt, fiction
Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds herself playing the dangerous role of double spy for two arch enemies - each of whom supports a contender for the throne of Egypt.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Eloise Jarvis McGraw
- First published
- August 1979
- Pages
- 284
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books, Listening Library, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780425291733
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