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Literary Texts:

Literary texts

While official texts are still written in Middle Egyptian, literary texts are now written in Late Egyptian (in the New Kingdom).

We have many classics from the Middle Kingdom:

Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor
http://www.touregypt.net/shipwreckedsailor.htm

Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/peasant.htm

Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1800egypt-peasant.html

Many have commented that tales from the New Kingdom seem to be lighter and more episodic.

(Taking of Joppa)
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_egyptiantales_2.htm
Must scroll down or use the Find on page command.

Shaw, Ian, and Paul Nicholson. (1995, 2003). "literature." The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. New York: Harry N Abrams, Inc.