Alexandria

A History and Guide

E.M. Forster

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English

Bloomsbury
01 October 2019

Middle Eastern history; African history; History: earliest times to present day; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Travel & holiday; Classic travel writing

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 affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and the greatest library the world has ever known was built. Threading 3,000 years of history with vibrant strands of literature and punctuating the narrative with his own experiences,

Forster immortalised Alexandria, painting an incomparable portrait of the great city and, inadvertently, himself.

By: E.M. Forster
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 254g
ISBN: 9781838605896
ISBN 10: 1838605894
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was perhaps the most quintessential of English novelists. From the stifling drawing rooms of Howard's End to the dust and dark undercurrents of Passage to India, he captured the spirit of his time in a way that has made his six novels unforgettable and much-loved classics.

Reviews for Alexandria: A History and Guide

This work is something more than just a work of literary piety devoted to that strange and evocative city called Alexandria... it succeeds in being a small work of art, for it contains some of Forster's best prose as well as felicities of touch only a novelist of major talent could command. Vintage Forster. -- Lawrence Durrell Surely the best guide-book ever written. -- Bonamy Dobrée