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Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity by Benjamin Disraeli

Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity

Author
Benjamin Disraeli
Categories
Crusades, Historical fiction, Jerusalem, Jewish fiction, Jews, Princes, War stories
Format ePub (for Digital Readers, including the Sony Reader, and PC/MAC) and Mobi (for Amazon Kindle)
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Excerpt

Being at Jerusalem in the year 1831, and visiting the traditionary tombs of the Kings of Israel, my thoughts recurred to a personage whose marvellous career had, even in boyhood, attracted my attention, as one fraught with the richest materials of poetic fiction. And I then commenced these pages that should commemorate the name of Alroy. In the twelfth century, when he arose, this was the political condition of the East:


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