Quotations from Georg Ebers
Georg Ebers spent his life excavating both ancient tombs and the depths of human emotion. This collection gathers his most piercing observations from the historical novels that made him one of the 19th century's most beloved writers. Here are fragments of wisdom on love and its contradictions, on happiness and its elusiveness, on jealousy and contempt and the thousand shades between. Ebers wrote with the calm authority of a man who had looked deep into antiquity and found the human heart unchanged. The quotes function as concentrated philosophy, each one a small window onto his elegant narratives of ancient Egypt, classical Rome, and the medieval world. They reward slow reading. For anyone curious about Ebers but unsure where to begin his lengthy novels, this serves as an elegant introduction to a distinctive literary voice that once commanded a vast readership.
