The Princess Cecilia (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Princess Cecilia (Classic Reprint) written by Elmer Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Princess Cecilia And even today, when the nobility at least has taken on Western civilization overnight, when Ambok's great men wear American clothes and read the New York papers, and send their sons to college at Cambridge or New Haven or Berkeley, these palaces remain as always silent and grim and Oriental, wherein nothing has changed since the days of Haroun al Raschid. Though the city of Ambok boasts of three daily newspapers, though Eng lisb is the business and official language, men still exclaim in times of stress and excitement that there is no deity but God, and that Mohammed is his prophet; and, though on the downtown business streets you may see the estab lishments of American tailors, American druggists and modistes and beauty doctors, yet behind the spiked walls of palace gardens and the lattices of harems, eunuchs rule and women are kidnapped and offenders are tortured after the immemorial fashion of the East. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.