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.
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