Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)
Publisher: Plume
Published: November 15, 1961
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1
ISBN-13: 9780525470823
Subjects: Fiction / General; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: As a junior of exceptional promise, he had been sent to Egypt for a year in order to improve his Arabic and found himself attached to the High Commission as a sort of scribe to await his first diplomatic posting; but he was already conducting himself as a young secretary of legation, fully aware of the responsibilities of future office.