The title and some of the plot of the first volume is related to Luis de Góngora's Las Soledades, or The Solitudes. The titles of the first three volumes in the sequence are tributes to Renaissance literary works and in many cases the nature of these works redound on the action of these three novels themselves: The difference is marked stylistically by dashes indicating dialogue for events that happened in the Renaissance and events in the twentieth century marked by dialogue in ordinary English quotation marks. The novels generally have three main "strands" reflecting on three main characters, one occurring in the present day generally following Pierce or Rosie Mucho in their artistic works, and two occurring in the Renaissance following the fictionalized historical activities of John Dee, Edward Kelley and Giordano Bruno as written by Fellowes Kraft. The distinctions between Crowley's, Moffett's, and Kraft's books are continually elided and the three books are finally undifferentiated. Early in the process, he conceives of writing a novel which, it is clear, would be Ægypt his ruminations on that novel describe the structure of the novel he is in. Moffett is trained as a historian, and is under contract to write a popular history covering hermetical themes. Another manuscript, left unfinished by its author Fellowes Kraft and discovered by Moffett, is an historical fiction that follows the briefly intersecting adventures of Italian heretic Giordano Bruno and of British occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley. 
The four volumes deal with Moffett's real and dream life in the United States in 1977 (and, in an extended coda, into the early 1980s) with the narrative of the manuscript he is preparing for publication. World Fantasy Award nominee, 1988 Arthur C. Originally published in 1987 as Ægypt, despite Crowley's objections.
The series describes the life and work of Pierce Moffett, a history professor who prepares a manuscript for publication even as it prepares him for some as-yet unknown destiny, all set amidst strange and subtle Hermetic manipulations among the Faraway Hills at the border of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Ægypt is a fantasy tetralogy written by American author John Crowley. For the first volume of the series once titled Ægypt or Aegypt, see The Solitudes (novel). For the country sometimes spelt Ægypt or Aegypt, see Egypt.
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