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    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I.
    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I.
    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I.
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    Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I.

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    Edward Bulwer-Lytton

    Edward Bulwer-Lytton, engl. Romanschriftsteller und Politiker, ist bekannt geworden durch seine populären historischen/metaphysischen und unvergleichlichen Romane wie „Zanoni“, „Rienzi“, „Die letzten Tage von Pompeji“ und „Das kommende Geschlecht“. Ihm wird die Mitgliedschaft in der sagenumwobenen Gemeinschaft der Rosenkreuzer nachgesagt. 1852 wurde er zum Kolonialminister von Großbritannien ernannt.

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      Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book I. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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      LEILA

      OR,

      THE SIEGE OF GRANADA

      BY

      EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

      Book I.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE ENCHANTER AND THE WARRIOR.

      It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and

      Isabel invested the city of Granada.

      The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia, shone calmly over the immense and murmuring encampment of the Spanish foe, and touched with a hazy light the snow- capped summits of the Sierra Nevada, contrasting the verdure and luxuriance which no devastation of man could utterly sweep from the beautiful vale below.

      In the streets of the Moorish city many a group still lingered. Some, as if unconscious of the beleaguering war without, were listening in quiet indolence to the strings of the Moorish lute, or the lively tale of an Arabian improrvisatore; others were conversing with such eager and animated gestures, as no ordinary excitement could wring from the stately calm habitual to every oriental people. But the more public places in which gathered these different groups, only the more impressively heightened the desolate and solemn repose that brooded over the rest of the city.

      At this time, a man, with downcast eyes, and arms folded within the sweeping gown which descended to his feet, was seen passing through the streets, alone, and apparently unobservent of all around him. Yet this indifference was by no means shared by the struggling crowds through which, from time to time, he musingly swept.

      God is great! said one man; it is the Enchanter Almamen.

      He hath locked up the manhood of Boabdil el Chico with the key of his spells, quoth another, stroking his beard; I would curse him, if I dared.

      But they say that he hath promised that when man fails, the genii will fight for Granada, observed a third, doubtingly.

      Allah Akbar! what is, is! what shall be, shall be! said a fourth, with all the solemn sagacity of a prophet. Whatever their feelings, whether of awe or execration, terror or hope, each group gave way as Almamen

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