Isabelle Eberhardt has become an almost legendary writer for his life and his unique destiny, and a vital attitude pioneer in many fields. These stories, based on a greater or lesser extent experienced by the author's experiences illustrate the different facets of the world she loved passionately and which are fully integrated: the world of Islam and, in particular, the Bedouin culture of the Algerian Sahara.

"There is only one thing that can help me spend a few years of earthly life that I have been intended: the literary work, that factitious life has its charm and the huge advantage of leaving almost entirely free rein to our will, and that It allows us exteriorizarnos without suffering painful outside contacts. "

That was from the end of 1902 lsabelle Eberhardt, for whom the literary work always was, indeed, the great retreat, the privileged field perhaps the only one where his true personality fully develop and recreate their own life.

lsabelle "lived" really in his work, to the point that Mahmoud Saadi, the last of his literary pseudonyms, became in fact his "true" personality. And interestingly was that parallel life, his writings, always so fragile and precarious, which had the endurance to the ubiquitous Maktub denied Isabelle in real life. Indeed, miraculously saved from the mud that ended the life of Isabelle Eberhardt in 1904, the work of this would not only assure his posthumous fame, but became the most faithful testimony of his exciting life, that somehow we it is given and shared.

In this selection we collected only literary texts of what we might call the first African stage of Isabelle Eberharc, or prior to his final return to Algeria in January 1902. While his works are varied in theme, mostly illustrated with graphs brushstrokes, the different facets of the world she loved passionately and which are fully integrated: the Dar al-Islam and, in particular, the Bedouin culture of the Algerian Sahara; and although -tácita or explicitly include a denunciation of the colonial action are inscribed, in fact, in the broader framework of its condemnation of modern civilization, whose scourges complaint.