Front matter

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ALEXANDRIA: A HISTORY AND GUIDE

Agents, Messrs. Whitehead Morris

9 Fenchurch Street E.C.

HOWARDS END

Edward Arnold

PHAROS AND PHARILLON

E. M. FORSTER

Second Edition

PUBLISHED BY LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS HOGARTH HOUSE PARADISE ROAD RICHMOND SURREY

1923

First published May 1923

Reprinted June 1923

Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.

Ἑρμῇ ψυχοπομπῷ

Five of the following chapters are reprinted by the courtesy of The Nation and the Athenæum; the remainder have not been previously published in this country.

I am indebted to Mr. C. P. Cavafy for permission to publish his poems, and to Mr. George Valassopoulo for his translation of them.

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