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Title: Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity

Author: A. I. Kuprin

Translator: Bernard Guilbert Guerney

Release date: August 16, 2010 [eBook #33444]
Most recently updated: October 16, 2021

Language: English

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SULAMITH

A Romance of Antiquity

By ALEXANDRE KUPRIN

Author of “Yama” (The Pit), etc.

Translated from the Russian
By B. G. GUERNEY

with
Eight full-page illustrations in color
By FORBES-FELIX

NEW YORK

Privately Printed for Subscribers

MCMXXVIII

(title page image)

Copyright by
NICHOLAS L. BROWN
All Rights Reserved

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AUTHOR’S DEDICATION:

To Ivan Alexeievich Bunin

A. Kuprin

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.1

THE SONG OF SONGS

Transcriber’s Note: This Table of Contents has been added for convenience; none was present in the original, which contained only the List of Illustrations.

CONTENTS

Notes by the Translator

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS