The days : an autobiography in three parts / Taha Hussein ; translated by E. H. Paxton, Hilary Wayment, Kenneth Cragg ; foreword by Roger Allen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā, 1889-1973, Author.

Contributor:

Paxton, E. H. (Evelyn Henry), 1906- translator.

Wayment, Hilary, translator.

Cragg, Kenneth, 1913-2012, translator.

Allen, Roger, 1942- writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Ayyām. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/c7eb6847-b543-76aa-419b-e3aa5770c202

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Arab--Egypt--Biography.

Authors, Arab.

Authors, Egyptian--Biography.

Authors, Egyptian.

Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā, 1889-1973.

Ḥusayn, Ṭāhā.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 359 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2025.

Summary:

"The monumental three-part autobiography of one of modern Egypt's greatest writers and thinkers is again available in a single paperback in this classic reissue. The first part, An Egyptian Childhood (1929), is full of the sounds and smells of rural Egypt. It tells of Hussein's childhood and early education in a small village in Upper Egypt, as he learns not only to come to terms with his blindness but to excel in spite of it and win a place at the prestigious Azhar University in Cairo. The second part, The Stream of Days: A Student at the Azhar (1939), is an enthralling picture of student life in Egypt in the early 1900s, and the record of the growth of an unusually gifted personality. More than forty years later, Hussein published A Passage to France (1973), carrying the story on to his final attainment of a doctorate at the Sorbonne, a saga of perseverance in the face of daunting odds"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An Egyptian childhood

The stream of days

A passage to France.

Notes:

Translated from the Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781649032614

1649032617

OCLC:

1503769883

Publisher Number:

90103570716