Lawrence Durrell

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Texas

A novel concerning love and murder in the streets, brothels, and drawing-rooms of Alexandria, Egypt.

Balthazar

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Iowa

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. That affair not only changes the lovers, it transforms the dead as well, revealing new layers of duplicity and desire, perversity and pathos in Lawrence Durrell’s masterly construction. “A massive, marvelously concrete, deeply felt statement of faith. . . . His style glows with the mineral deposits of many cultures. One of the most important works of our time has come to an end.”—The New York Times Book Review “Clea rounds out the tetralogy with grace, beauty, and stunning impact. . . . This rich, exciting fare is Durrell’s finest writing style, a manner of writing few living authors can equal. . . . A magnificent achievement.”—The Detriot News “The reader is carried along on a current of superbly accomplished prose, as flexible and colorful as that of any contemporary writer. . . . What Durrell has given us is well worth having.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Clea

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This is a reprint of "Mountolive" by Lawrence Durrell, published by Penguin Publishing Group in 1991. The book is in Uk-B Format paperback and has 320 pages. It measures 7.7 inches in length, 5.1 inches in width, and 0.7 inches in height, with a weight of 8.9 ounces. 

The book is written in English and falls under the genre of fiction with topics ranging from romance, historical, and general literary themes. The book is perfect for those who enjoy reading historical novels and is a great addition to any book collection.

Ohio

The intrigues of Justine and Balthazar multiply and deepen in the third volume of the Alexandria Quartet, giving us a novel of labyrinthine intricacy and mesmerizing beauty. In the first two novels of this profoundly innovative masterpiece, Lawrence Durrell explored two sides of a romantic quadrangle involving several inhabitants of prewar Alexandria. Now that geometry is seen from a startling new angle—through the clinical eye of a British diplomat, for whom love is only another form of statecraft. Like its predecessors, 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. “Durrell is almost without peer in conveying atmosphere and mood. Even if his Alexandria never existed on this earth, it is now as real as Hawthorne’s Rome, Proust’s Paris, Loti’s Constantinople. . . . Mountolive is dazzlingly cohesive, beautifully controlled from beginning to end.”—Saturday Review “A work of splendid craft and troubling veracity.”—The New York Times “Mountolive has vivid imagery and scenes of ghastly hilarity. . . . Readers will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design.”—TIME

Mountolive

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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 migr Darley becomes enmeshed with the bisexual artist Clea. That affair not only changes the lovers, it transforms the dead as well, revealing new layers of duplicity and desire, perversity and pathos in Lawrence Durrell's masterly construction.


Washington

Virginia

The Poetry of Lawrence Durrell

Clea, published in 1960, is the fourth volume in a tetralogy of novels by the British author. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1930s and 1940s, the first three volumes tell the same story from different points of view, and Clea relates subsequent events.

This is the first US edition.  The dust cover is in very rough shape, there is some discoloration and staining due to age on the inside, and substantial shelf-wear.  That said, the binding is intact and all of the pages are there. ￼

E.P. Dutton & Company - 1960

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Clea (First US Edition)

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Florida

Nunquam

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Second volume in The Alexandria Quartet

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Georgia

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

Balthasar

This book is a must-have for any literature enthusiast. It is a reprint of "Clea" by Lawrence Durrell, part of the "Alexandria Quartet Ser." published by Penguin Publishing Group in 1991. The book is in Uk-B Format Paperback and has 288 pages.

The book is written in English and is classified under the genres of Fiction, Classics, Literary, and Historical. It has a weight of 7.6 Oz, a length of 7.7 in, a height of 0.6 in, and a width of 5.1 in. The book is perfect for collectors and those interested in the literary history of Alexandria.

Alabama

Sketches from Diplomatic Life

Esprit de Corps

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New York

Alexandria Quartet

Darley returns to a war-fevered Alexandria as the stories of the many characters move toward conclusion.

Michigan

A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes

Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War IIby the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.

Reflections on a Marine Venus

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California

Final volume of the Alexandria Quartet

Connecticut

Nunquam 

Justine Balthazar Mountolive Clea

The Alexandria QUartet

#paperback First edition, Capra Press, 1975

Blue Thirst

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

South Carolina

The Alexandria quartet

Justine

Justine by Lawrence Durrell 2008 The Folio Society New w/Slipcase New 
Durrell's masterpiece is onne of the world's greatest romances, rich in political and sexual intrigue. This seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt is set in the city of Alexandria once home to the world's greatest library, attracting scholars dedicated solely to the pursuit of knowledge. But on the eve of World War II, the obsessed characters in this mesmerizing novel find that their pursuits lead only to bedrooms in which each seeks to know-and possess-the other.
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Justine by Lawrence Durrell 2008 The Folio Society New w/Slipcase New

Claude Seignolle

Eric H. Deudon

Kentucky

These eight tales of mystery and the supernatural feature sorcerers, the Grim Reaper in a horse-drawn coach, a beguiling bird of death, a long-dead saint turned devil, and a whole retinue of creatures of the night. Claude Seignolle, distinguished French ethnographer and folklorist and author of more than twenty-three volumes of short stories and novels, is a master of the “rustic” tale, which depicts folklore and popular traditions of the French countryside. He incarnates Satan as an entity sharing human traits, an evil spirit who identifies himself with human suffering. Seignolle’s Gothic stories are not meant merely to terrorize, however; they are intended to revive an oral tradition in danger of becoming extinct. These vignettes, selected and translated into English by Eric H. Deudon, are charged with poetry and mystery; as Lawrence Durrell notes in his foreword, they are strong, truthful, and intense. Seignolle brings to life the wealth of popular legend; by intertwining the boundaries of the real and the supernatural, he reveals that the least conspicuous or most ordinary objects of everyday life can possess unexpected and formidable dimensions. Claude Seignolle’s fiction works have been translated into eight languages and adapted for both theater and cinema. These stories will delight anyone who enjoys Gothic tales and the enchanted territory of the fantastic.

The Nightcharmer and Other Tales of Claude Seignolle

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Orhan Pamuk

In Istanbul in the late 1590s, the sultan secretly commissions a book: a celebration of his life and empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day in the European manner. But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their master has to seek outside help. Did the dead painter fall victim to professional rivalry, romantic jealousy or religious terror?

My Name Is Red

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Henri Michaux

Richard Sieburth

This is one of the books that I have read for the RNL. This volume comes with some personal thoughts on this text

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