tion>Alexander William Kinglake
Eothen; with an Introduction and Notes
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664576774
Table of Contents
CHAPTER VIII LADY HESTER STANHOPE [82]
CHAPTER X THE MONKS OF PALESTINE
CHAPTER XV PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN
CHAPTER XVIII CAIRO AND THE PLAGUE [202]
CHAPTER XXVI THE PROPHET DAMOOR
CHAPTER XXVIII PASS OF THE LEBANON
CHAPTER XXIX SURPRISE OF SATALIEH [298a]
APPENDIX THE HOME OF LADY HESTER STANHOPE
A PROSPECTUS OF THE LITTLE LIBRARY
INTRODUCTION
I
Eothen is the earliest work of Alexander William Kinglake, best known as the historian of the Crimean War. It is an account of a tour—or rather of selected adventures which occurred during a tour—undertaken in the Levant in 1834, but was not published until ten years later. The biographical notices of the Author are somewhat meagre, as by his dying directions all his papers were destroyed. He was born near Taunton in 1809, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, at which latter he is said to have been the friend of Thackeray and Tennyson. On leaving college he started on his Oriental tour with Lord Pollington (the Methley of Eothen), and on returning to England was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn, and obtained a lucrative practice. But the life was too tame to suit his taste. In 1845 he visited Algeria, and went through a campaign with the flying column of St. Arnaud; and in 1854 went to the Crimea with Lord Raglan, and was present at the battle
