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Cover art: Ray Johnson
Blurb: “This book tells the fascinating story-part fact, part fiction— of one of history's most famous women - Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Historians, novelists, pots have long been intrigued by the pagan Cleopatra. Such master dramatists as Shakespeare and Shaw have made her the subject of plays, Shaw writing of the young girl who loved Julius Caesar, and Shakespeare of her fatal affair with Mark An-tony. Was she divine goddess or vile serpent? ... Writers have hotly debated this question. But all agree that she was extraordinarily alluring, a beautiful enchantress of great charm-and violently dangerous to the men who could not resist falling in love with her.
In "Virgin Queen" author E. Barrington portrays Cleopatra as a girl of twenty, being advised by her faithful servants to ally herself with the Roman conqueror. Talbot Mundy's "A Gift for Caesar" is the story of the curious meeting of the lovely young Queen and the ageing but still virile Julius Cae-sar. Cleopatra consults a wise man as to whether she should give herself to Caesar in "Ambitious Goddess," while "A Toast to Murder" concerns a eunuch's attempt to poison the Queen at a magnificent banquet.”