Alexandria

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.

• List of Maps and Plans IntroductionPrefaceAuthoritiesPart I: HistoryI Greco-Egyptian PeriodII Christian PeriodIII The Spiritual CityIV Arab PeriodV Modern PeriodPart II: GuideI From the Square to Rue RosetteII From the Square to Ras-el-TinIII From the Square to the Southern QuartersIV From the Square to NouzhaV From the Square to RamlehVI From the Square to MexVII Aboukir and RosettaVIII The Libyan DesertAppendicesI The Modern Religious CommunitiesII The Death of CleopatraIII The Uncanonical Gospels of EgyptIV The Nicene CreedNotes

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.