Alexandria: City of Memory

by Michael Haag

Book Overview

A luminous portrait of the now-vanished cosmopolitan city and those who inhabited it during the first half of the 20th century

This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries, letters, and interviews, Michael Haag recovers the lost life of the city, its cosmopolitan inhabitants, and its literary characters.
Located on the coast of Africa yet rich in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030019112X
• ISBN13: 9780300191127
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.3"