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Alexandria: A History and Guide by E. M. Forster
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
In the autumn of 1915, in a "slightly heroic mood," E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet most of his time was spent exploring "the magic, antiquity and complexity" of the place in order to cope with living in what he saw as a "funk-hole." With a ...Show more
Love in Bloomsbury by Frances Partridge
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Category: Literary | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora and Lytton Strachey was one of the most tortured (Frances love ...Show more
Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
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Category: Travel Writing | Series: Tauris Parke Paperbacks Ser.
Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful kilometre in Italy' - wrote Gabriele d'Annunzio of its coastline. Though steeped in a rich and ancient past, Calabria had been lost from view when Norman Douglas visited in the early 1900s. Lo ...Show more
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