Alexandria Quartet Series by Lawrence Durrell

4.08 · 90 ratings
  • Justine (Alexandria Quartet #1)
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    Justine (Alexandria Quartet #1)

    Lawrence Durrell

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1957

    The time is the eve of the World War II. The place is Alexandria, an Egyptian city that once housed the world's greatest library and whose inhabitants are dedicated to knowledge. But for the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel, their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to know--and possess--the other. Since its publication in 1957, Justine has inspired an almost religious devotion among readers and critics alike.

  • Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet #2)
    #2

    Balthazar (Alexandria Quartet #2)

    Lawrence Durrell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1958

    The dazzling second volume of The Alexandria Quartet--an enthralling and deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surfaces and endless deceptions.In Alexandra, in the years before the Second World War, an exiled Irish schoolteacher seeks to unravel his sexual obsession with two women: the tubercular cafe dancer, Melissa, and Justine, the alluring Jewish wife of a wealthy Coptic Christian... more

  • Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet #3)
    #3

    Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet #3)

    Lawrence Durrell

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1958

    Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East.

  • Clea (Alexandria Quartet #4)
    #4

    Clea (Alexandria Quartet #4)

    Lawrence Durrell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1960

    The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alexandria Quartet. Some years and one world war was after his bizarre liaisons with Melissa and Justine, the Irish émigré Darley becomes enmeshed with the bisexual artist Clea... more

  • The Alexandria Quartet (Alexandria Quartet #1-4)
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    The Alexandria Quartet (Alexandria Quartet #1-4)

    Lawrence Durrell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1960

    Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960).Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. One L.G. Darley is the primary observer of the events, which include events in the lives of those he loves, and those he knows... more

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