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Alexandria

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Alexandria

By E. M. Forster

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About the book

In the autumn of 1915, in a "slightly heroic mood", E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring "the magic, antiquity and complexity" of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a "funk-hole". With a novelist's pen, he brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affai...Show more

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9781780763576

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I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.

Published year

2014

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1

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Alexandria

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