Margery

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Set in the civic world of late medieval Nuremberg, Margery is a historical romance that reconstructs patrician households, guild discipline, religious feeling, and the tensions of love, honor, and family duty. Ebers writes in a richly pictorial, antiquarian style, attentive to costume, speech, domestic ritual, and urban atmosphere. Like the historical novels descended from Walter Scott, the book uses private passion to illuminate a wider cultural moment, making old German burgher life feel morally and socially immediate. Georg Ebers was both a novelist and a distinguished scholar, best known as an Egyptologist and as the discoverer of the Ebers Papyrus. His fiction repeatedly shows the habits of a researcher: careful reconstruction, respect for material culture, and a desire to animate the past without reducing it to mere pageantry. In Margery, his scholarly imagination turns from ancient Egypt to his own German historical inheritance, suggesting a writer equally fascinated by civilization, memory, and character. Readers who enjoy historically grounded fiction, especially narratives of medieval Europe, will find Margery rewarding. It offers romance, cultural detail, and moral seriousness in equal measure, and remains valuable for those interested in nineteenth-century historical imagination.

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Pagina's: 220, Paperback, Sharp Ink