1 place, 10 books,
Alexandria
- 2024
The early 1960s: Nasser’s police close in on friends who meet each evening in Alexandria.
- 1994
A Jewish family’s Alexandria, from the uncles who arrived in 1905 to the exile of 1965.
- 1986
A Coptic boy grows up in the many-tongued Alexandria of the 1930s and the war.
- 1967
An old journalist and the guests of an Alexandria boarding house, all drawn to its maid.
- 1960
Alexandria in the Second World War, as the narrator comes back and loves the painter Clea.
- 1958
A doctor’s notes turn the story of Justine inside out, in the same Alexandria.
- 1958
A British diplomat’s view of Alexandria’s Copts, their plot, and the love he left there.
- 1957
A poor teacher loves the elusive Justine in the many-tongued Alexandria of the 1930s.
- 1935
Alexandria’s streets, cafés and old kings, in the poems Durrell wove into his Quartet.
- 1922
The city’s two thousand years and a walk through its streets, by Forster in wartime.
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