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What is the title of the celebrated Middle Kingdom narrative — one of the earliest examples of extended prose fiction in world literature — in which a courtier flees Egypt and finds fortune in Canaan before returning home to be buried?
Answer: The Story of Sinuhe — The Story of Sinuhe, composed around 1875 BCE, is a first-person narrative of an Egyptian official who panics and flees upon hearing of the pharaoh's death, spends years in exile in Retjenu (Canaan), and eventually returns to die in Egypt with full royal honours — it was so popular that fragments have been found copied as a school exercise centuries later.
- A The Story of Sinuhe ✓
- B The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor
- C The Eloquent Peasant
- D The Contendings of Horus and Seth
The Story of Sinuhe, composed around 1875 BCE, is a first-person narrative of an Egyptian official who panics and flees upon hearing of the pharaoh's death, spends years in exile in Retjenu (Canaan), and eventually returns to die in Egypt with full royal honours — it was so popular that fragments have been found copied as a school exercise centuries later.