Lawrence Durrell

Justine (Alexandria Quartet)

JUSTINE/BALTHAZAR/MOUNTOLIVE/CLEA/BOXED SET

ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

Balthazar (Durrell, Lawrence. Alexandria Quartet.)

Prospero's Cell

Balthazar

Peter Baldwin

James Gifford

Collected Essays and Travel Writings

From the Elephant's Back

The Revolt of Aphrodite

A British secret service agent investigates the brutal murder of a fellow agent in the Balkans

White Eagles Over Serbia

"White-washed houses drenched in pink bougainvillea; dazzling seascapes and rugged coastlines; colourful harbours in quaint fishing villages; shady olive and cypress groves; terraces bathed in the Aegean sun ... The Greek islands conjure up a treasure-chest of images - but nobody brings them to life as vividly as the legendary travel writer Lawrence Durrell. It was during his youth in Corfu - which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals, later filmed as The Durrells In Corfu - that his love affair with the Mediterranean began. Now, in this glorious tour of the Greek islands, he weaves evocative descriptions of these idyllic landscapes with insights into their ancient history, and shares luminous personal memories of his time in the local communities. No traveller to Greece or admirer of Durrell's magic should miss it."--Amazon.ca.

The Greek Islands

Death and madness break up the relationship of three people who pursued a life of decadence and worshipped the devil in an ancient cult.

By Lawrence Durrell

Monsieur

Justine Iskenderiye Dörtlüsü 1

Balthazar Iskenderiye Dörtlüsü 2

Reflections on a Marine Venus

Esprit De Corps

Stiff Upper Lip

Balthasar

Vladimir Volkoff

Christine Savinel

Roger Giroux

Justine / Balthazar
Mountolive / Clea

Préface de Vladimir Volkoff
Traduction de Roger Giroux
Annotation et postface de Christine Savinel

Le Quatuor d'Alexandrie

Justine

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 café dancer, Melissa, and Justine, the alluring Jewish wife of a wealthy Coptic Christian. What emerges in his sessions with the psychiatrist Balthazar, however, is something far more complex—and unfathomably more sinister—than neurosis. Lawrence Durrell’s kaleidoscopic narrative ushers us into a world in which no perception is reliable—and love itself is always an act of treachery. “Durrell is one of the very best novelists of our time. . . . He has a sensuous, vigorous style that I have not found equaled by any other novelist today. . . . A spontaneous, resourceful new beauty that any sensitive reader will almost certainly love.”—The New York Book Review “It is difficult to sum up Balthazar; it will not be contained. It spills or slips away like smoke. The sheer writing is superb. . . . A wonderful book, a book to read many times.”—The Houston Post

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