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The Anubis Gates Summary & Study Guide Description
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The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers is a delightful tale of time travel, magic, history, romance, and deceit. In the beginning of the novel, it is 1802 and Amenophis Fikee and Doctor Romany, both magical gypsies, attempt to open a gate and summon Anubis for their master, who wants to purge Egypt of all foreign powers. Doctor Romany is a magical duplicate, or ka, of Doctor Romanelli in Egypt. Their magic, however, disappears and leaves Fikee a howling animal who runs from camp. In current times, Brendan Doyle, the main character, finds himself commissioned for a position with J. Cochran Darrow, an ill, yet still powerful man.
Darrow's supposed plan is to travel back in time through a hole in the time stream back to 1810 to hear the poet Coleridge speak. Darrow has hired a staff, including Doyle's friend Steerforth Benner, to assist...
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