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Refounded on the African littoral and on the verge of an alien culture, yet rich in historical associations central to Western civilisation, Alexandria epitomised for Cavafy, Forster and Durrell the vulnerability of their worlds. The city haunted each of them, that cosmopolitan Alexandria whose roots were the fragile memory-traces of its past, and it became a model for each of them, a microcosm and a mirror.

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""Michael Haag's Alexandria is a remarkable achievement. Not merely a composite biography of Forster, Cavafy and Durrell, or their relations with the city, it is also a history of Alexandria, full of fascinating detail."" - Sir Frank Kermode""

Michael Haag's Alexandria is a remarkable achievement. Not merely a composite biography of Forster, Cavafy and Durrell, or their relations with the city, it is also a history of Alexandria, full of fascinating detail. - Sir Frank Kermode

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Michael Haag is a freelance writer who has published in the areas of history, biography and travel. He is the author/photographer of Alexandria (The American University in Cairo Press), and he provided the afterword and notes to the first British edition of E. M. Forster's Alexandria: A History and a Guide.

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