''Voyage to the Orient'' (french: Voyage en Orient) is one of the works of French writer and poet
Gérard de Nerval, published during
1851
Events
January–March
* January 11 – Hong Xiuquan officially begins the Taiping Rebellion.
* January 15 – Christian Female College, modern-day Columbia College, receives its charter from the Missouri General Assembly.
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, resulting from his voyage of 1842 to
Cairo and
Beirut. In addition to a travel account it retells Oriental tales, like
Solomon
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and the
Queen of Sheba, in terms of the artist and the act of creation.
The chapters first appeared in the periodical ''
Revue des Deux Mondes
The ''Revue des deux Mondes'' (, ''Review of the Two Worlds'') is a monthly French-language literary, cultural and current affairs magazine that has been published in Paris since 1829.
According to its website, "it is today the place for debates a ...
'' in 1846 and 1847, where the series was called ''Scènes de la Vie Orientale''.
[''The Women of Cairo Volume One'']
Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1930. Translation of ''Voyage en Orient''. See "Introduction" by Conrad Elphinstone. Later, when the chapters appeared together in book form in 1851, it was retitled ''Voyage en Orient'', and an account of de Nerval's travels through Europe before leaving for the Orient was added.
[ For a later edition, de Nerval added a series of appendices, the majority of the material taken directly from Lane's '']Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
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''.[ In 1930, the book was translated as ''The Women Of Cairo'' by Conrad Elphinstone in two volumes, it included only the material originally published in 1846–47.][ More recent translations are incomplete.
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Notes
External links
''The Women of Cairo Volume One''
Volume 2
Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Translation of ''Voyage en Orient''.
1851 books
French travel books
Works originally published in Revue des deux Mondes
Works by Gérard de Nerval
Eastern culture
Orientalism
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