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The setting of "The Picnic at Sakkara", a delightful comedy, is Egypt in the days of King Farouk. Edgar Perry, a lecturer at Cairo University, finds himself in a world on all sides less well-ordered than himself. His own wife deceives herself, it not him; his illustrious private pupil, Tureiya Pasha, encourages him to believe in something like a mirage; his students, in the intervals of hearing from him about the beauties of George Eliot, take part in violent political demonstrations; and one of them, Muawiya Khaslat, an attractive rogue hardly able to reconcile his devotion to Perry with his membership of the Moslem Brotherhood, almost turns the picnic into a tragedy. Newby's Egypt is more than credible and wholly entertaining. 'The light but intelligent novel is always a rare and attractive bird. Such a novel is "The Picnic at Sakkara" - a book that combines gaiety and shrewdness, a sense of fun and a sense of drama, that treats an important and absorbing subject in a light-hearted and light-handed way' - "Daily Mail". 'His most successful novel' - "Times".
 
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Hardback Editions

December 1955 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0571080022Title: The Picnic at Sakkara
Author(s): P.H. Newby
ISBN: 0-571-08002-2 / 978-0-571-08002-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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January 1955 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 9997546377Title: The Picnic at Sakkara
Author(s): P.H. Newby
ISBN: 9997546377 / 9789997546371
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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Paperback Editions

April 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0571251110Title: The Picnic at Sakkara
Author(s): P.H. Newby
ISBN: 0-571-25111-0 / 978-0-571-25111-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber Finds
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December 1964 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0571058000Title: Picnic at Sakkara
Author(s): P.H. Newby
ISBN: 0-571-05800-0 / 978-0-571-05800-6 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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January 1955 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000NWSITUTitle: The Picnic at Sakkara
Author(s): P. H. Newby
Publisher: Knopf
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Other Editions

1966 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0000CNAPTTitle: The picnic at Sakkara
Author(s): P. H Newby
Publisher: Faber
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1966 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B001ORRPOMTitle: The Picnic at Sakkara
Author(s): P. H Newby
Publisher: Faber
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January 1955 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0017VX7Z6Title: The Picnic At Sakkara.
Author(s): P.H. Newby.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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