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Title: Alexandria: A History and a Guide

Author: E. M. Forster

Release date: April 21, 2018 [eBook #57010]

Language: English

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ALEXANDRIA:
A HISTORY AND A GUIDE.


By the same writer:
Howards End,
The Longest Journey,
The Celestial Omnibus,
ETC., ETC.

To G. H. L.

Vue d’Alexandrie—extraite du

IOVRNAL

DES VOYAGES

DE MONSIEVR

DE MONCONYS

LYON M DC LXV.

See p. 83


ALEXANDRIA:
A HISTORY AND A GUIDE
By
E. M. FORSTER, M.A. CANTAB.

If a man make a pilgrimage round Alexandria in the morning, God will make for him a golden crown, set with pearls, perfumed with musk and camphor, and shining from the East to the West.

Ibn Dukmak.

To any vision must be brought an eye adapted to what is to be seen.

Plotinus.
ALEXANDRIA:
WHITEHEAD MORRIS LIMITED

1922.