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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-07 - Publisher: Knopf
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Language: en
Pages: 284
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Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-09 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (
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Elegiac, deeply sensual, and able to plumb the heart with language of immense richness, Cavafy evokes the great lost classical world of the Mediterranean with u