Hatsu: A Story of Egypt

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Hatsu: A Story of Egypt

by Laura Dayton Fessenden

EN·~2 hours·20 chapters

Chapters

20 total
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E-text prepared by Mary Glenn Krause, Sam W., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

0:21
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PART I.

0:00
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CHAPTER I.

5:56
4

CHAPTER II.

14:53
5

CHAPTER III.

11:30
6

CHAPTER IV.

14:18
7

CHAPTER V.

8:17
8

CHAPTER VI.

8:44
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CHAPTER VII.

4:30
10

CHAPTER VIII.

4:09

Description

A golden sunset drapes the Nile’s banks, and the ancient city of Abydos glows behind its sandstone walls. Within the solemn “Palace of Tears,” the only sounds are whispering priests, lowing cattle, and the distant call of night birds. The atmosphere is thick with incense and the weight of centuries, a place where every stone seems to hold a prayer. It is a world where silence is as sacred as the river itself.

On his deathbed lies Tothmes the First, a ruler famed for grand buildings and daring diplomacy, now watching his life fade. He summons his only daughter, Princess Hatsu, to beg her consent to a marriage that would secure the throne for his heir. Hatsu, torn between grief for her father and the unsettling prospect of a union that feels more like duty than love, must decide whether to honor his final wish. The story unfolds in the delicate balance between personal sacrifice and the relentless currents of ancient Egyptian politics.

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Language

en

Duration

~2 hours (120K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2018-11-24

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Laura Dayton Fessenden

Laura Dayton Fessenden

A versatile American writer of romances, children's stories, and songs, she published steadily from the late 1870s into the 1920s. Her work ranges from light verse to imaginative fiction, including the curious and charming Moon Children.

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