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Resumen de Sucedió en Egipto
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A green-turbaned Hadji in Cairo is secretly a British officer, and a lord's treasure map leads up the Nile.
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Resumen: 8 min de lectura
- Tiempo de lectura
- Unas 9 h 35 min7 h 40 min fast, 11 h 25 min slow
- Duración
- 137.300 palabras
- Nivel en la biblioteca
- Mediano longer sentences, everyday words
- Primera publicación
- 1913by C. N. Williamson; A. M. Williamson
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Sucedió en Egipto in short
The book follows a small band of friends from Naples to the edge of the Sudan. Ernest Borrow sets out to chase a legend about a queen's tomb, and on the way he meets the girl he has loved since childhood and an American heiress who needs a lesson. His friend Anthony plays a double game as a guide in disguise.
What Sucedió en Egipto is about
What would you do if the guide a rich American girl picks out on a hotel terrace turned out to be your oldest friend in disguise? That is the moment that hooks Lord Ernest Borrow in Cairo, where a tall man in a green turban looks at Miss Gilder and says nothing.
It Happened in Egypt is a romantic adventure by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson, a husband and wife who wrote lively travel novels. Ernest tells the story himself. He is a young British diplomat, nicknamed Duffer, who laughs at his own mistakes. His voice carries you from Naples to Alexandria, up the Nile, and into the Sudan. Old papers point to a black hill called the Mountain of the Golden Pyramid, where a queen may lie among her jewels.
Para quién es. You will enjoy this if you love old-fashioned romance with a laugh in it, travel on the Nile, disguises and secret treasure, and a narrator who tells the tale against himself.
The story in 10 parts
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A secret and an old love meet aboard ship
The story opens on the Laconia, a liner steaming from Naples to Alexandria. Ernest Borrow, a British diplomat, paces the deck and thinks about his great secret. An Italian Egyptologist named Ferlini left papers about a hidden tomb, and Ernest has passed them to his friend Captain Anthony Fenton. Fenton believes they point to a fortune under a small black mountain.
Then a soft voice says, Why, Duffer, dear, and Ernest turns to find Brigit O'Brien. He has loved her since he was four, and he has not seen her in ten years. She is the widow of a socialist leader who betrayed his secret society. She travels as Mrs. Jones, companion to Rosamond Gilder, called Monny, the richest unmarried girl in America. Brigit decides at once that Ernest should marry her.
The ship is full of strange figures. Monny's aunt believes she is Cleopatra come again, and a bride shut in a cabin by her Turkish husband is known as the Ship's Mystery.
Everyone aboard carries a secret, and the plot grows out of that.
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Alexandria brings a pinpricked note and a dragoman
After three days at sea, Alexandria rises from the water like a bed of lotus flowers.
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A green turban stands under the terrace at Shepheard's
Next morning the party breakfasts on the terrace of Shepheard's Hotel.
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A financier offers the mountain in return for a tour
Anthony has bad news.
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A night out ends in the House of the Crocodile
Ernest comes back to Alexandria and finds a letter from Brigit.
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A desert caravan has trouble with labels and lambs
Ernest now has to take fifteen tourists, plus Monny's party, on a camel trip to the Fayum.
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Two rescue attempts on the Nile end in a mob
The Enchantress Isis leaves Cairo with Sir Marcus's guests.
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Names and faces are swapped all through the story
Almost everyone in this book wears a false name.
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Pride and prejudice give way to love slowly
Monny starts the trip with a hard idea.
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A jesting narrator guides us toward a mountain
Ernest tells his story in the first person, and his voice is the best thing about it.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Lord Ernest Borrow A young British diplomat nicknamed Duffer, born in Egypt, who sets out to find a legendary tomb and keeps falling over his own tongue.
- Brigit O'Brien Ernest's childhood love, an Irish widow travelling as Mrs. Jones, who guards a dangerous past and a stepdaughter hidden far away.
- Rosamond Gilder Called Monny, an American heiress of twenty-one who is generous, stubborn, and bent on adventure, and who has never been told no.
- Anthony Fenton A British army captain and master of disguise who plays an Egyptian Hadji to serve the government and chase a buried treasure.
- Mrs. East Monny's aunt and guardian, who believes she is Cleopatra reborn and expects something great to happen to her in Egypt.
- Sir Marcus Lark A huge, kind, self-made financier who owns the tour boats and the mountain, and who falls head over heels for Mrs. East.
- Bedr el Gemály A one-eyed Armenian dragoman with an American accent who talks his way into the party and seems to serve more than one master.
- Rachel Guest A schoolteacher from Salem on her first holiday, who receives lovely clothes from Monny and becomes much pursued after being mistaken for the heiress.
How it ends (spoiler)
The friends reach the secret room of Queen Candace and find her tomb untouched, with a golden pyramid held in her carved hands. Monny and Brigit beg the men to leave it, and the men find they feel the same. Anthony and Monny are united, Ernest wins Brigit, and Mrs. East is engaged to Sir Marcus Lark. The treasure stays with the queen, and the real wealth is the love the journey has given them.
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Preguntas sobre Sucedió en Egipto
What is It Happened in Egypt about?
It follows Lord Ernest Borrow and his friend Captain Anthony Fenton as they chase a legend of a queen's treasure in the Sudan while guiding tourists up the Nile. Along the way come love, disguises, and a rescue.
Who is Antoun Effendi in the story?
Antoun Effendi is the name of the man in a green turban who guides the heiress's party. He is the English officer Anthony Fenton, in disguise on a secret government mission.
Who is Mrs. East and why is she called Cleopatra?
She is Monny Gilder's aunt and guardian. After a crystal gazer told her she was the queen of Egypt reborn, she took the name Cleopatra, wears Egyptian jewelry, and expects a great event in Egypt.
Is It Happened in Egypt a true story?
No, it is a novel by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson, written in the early twentieth century. Real places like Shepheard's Hotel, Luxor, and Abu Simbel form the setting, and Egyptian history fills the background.
Is this book easy to follow?
Yes, the chapters are short and the narrator tells the story in a chatty voice with plenty of jokes. Clear scenes, letters, and a diary keep the adventure easy to follow from place to place.
Cita esta edición
Williamson, C. N., and A. M. Williamson. It Happened in Egypt. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/it-happened-in-egypt.
Williamson, C. N., & Williamson, A. M. (2026). It happened in Egypt. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/it-happened-in-egypt (Original work published 1913)
Williamson, C. N., and A. M. Williamson. It Happened in Egypt. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/it-happened-in-egypt.
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