Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 51. Chapters: Polish non-fiction books, Polish novels, Polish short story collections, Pharaoh, The Pianist, The Last Wish, Ashes and Diamonds, King Matt the First, In Desert and Wilderness, The Doll, Squadron 303, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, The Street of Crocodiles, Ch opi, A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish-Language Civil-Registration Documents, Ferdydurke, Ludzie bezdomni, Book of Henryk w, The Outpost, Je ycjada, Summa Technologiae, Nad Niemnem, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, Blood of Elves, Tales of Pirx the Pilot, Satan from the 7th grade, The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma, Children of Zion, Miranda, Ten obcy, A Scrap of Time and Other Stories, Nowe Ateny, Medallions, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Red Poppies on Monte Cassino, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom, Trans-Atlantyk, Insatiability, De optimo senatore, Times of Contempt, Argument About Basia, The Emperor, Nowy Dziennik, The Promised Land, The Shadow of the Sun, Efebos, The Spring to Come, The New Woman, Travels with Herodotus, Polonia sive de situ, populis, moribus, magistratibus et Republica regni Polonici libri duo, Syzyfowe prace, Kosmos, Michnikowszczyzna. Zapis choroby, An Ancient Tale, The Tree Butcher, Narrenturm, Factor T, Lux perpetua, The Faithful River, Cudzoziemka, The Gates of Paradise, Bo y bojownicy, Tiara i korona, Orinoco, The Girl in the Red Coat. Excerpt: Pharaoh (Polish: ) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Boles aw Prus (1847-1912). Composed over a year's time in 1894-95, it was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history. Pharaoh has been described by Czes aw Mi osz as a "novel on... mechanism of state power and, as such, ... probably unique in world lite...