![]() What malign influence and secret hates were at work,continually sapping their prosperity and blinding their judgment? Whydid Cleopatra fly at Actium, and why did Antony follow her, leaving hisfleet and army to destruction? An attempt is made in this romance tosuggest a possible answer to these and some other questions. ![]() ![]() The history of the ruin of Antony and Cleopatra must have struck manystudents of the records of their age as one of the most inexplicableof tragic tales. I trust that you will receive from my romance of "Cleopatra" some suchpleasure as lightened the labour of its building up and that itmay convey to your mind a picture, however imperfect, of the old andmysterious Egypt in whose lost glories you are so deeply interested. I have for a long while hoped to be allowed to dedicate some bookof mine to you, and now I bring you this work, because whatever itsshortcomings, and whatever judgment may be passed upon it by yourselfand others, it is yet the one I should wish you to accept. Produced by John Bickers Dagny Emma Dudding ![]()
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