Balthazar (Durrell, Lawrence. Alexandria Quartet.) ...
 no title: Like "Justine", written in a hauntingly sensual style, but far more readable. Took me a much shorter time to read it. There are so many memorable passages of beauty and wisdom in both, one could fill a small notebook - on love and the [... more]
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Lawrence Durrell: Conversations
Author: Lawrence Durrell Author: Earl G. Ingersoll Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 828.91209 EAN: 9780838637234 ISBN: 083863723X Number Of Pages: 261 Publication Date: 1998-06 [... more]
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The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader
Compared to most travel writing, should be 6 stars: The Lawrence Durrell Reader is a compendium of his best travel writing. All the entries concern the Mediterranean World and particularly its islands--Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus and Sicily, with Provence and [... more]
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Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
Review of Clea: Book IV of "The Alexandria Quartet": What can one say about perfection? One does not just look at the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel as a great work of art but rather as perfection personified, merely mediated by paints and gilt. [... more]
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Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet)
no title: This series so far - - "The Alexandria Quartet" - - has been one of the most interesting and wonderful things I have ever read. Memorable in every way. To be savored and remembered. Just simply a dazzling accomplishment by Durrell. & [... more]
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The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
A Broken Beauty: With its non-linear structure, sensuous prose, and cast of characters buffeted and beleaguered by love, this tetralogy is one of the masterworks of the twentieth century, and remains the finest work of literature to emerge from [... more]
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Dark Labyrinth
Clever, surprising, a delight, pure Durrell: Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet) originally published this "adventure" under another name, but it's pure Durrell; multiple character's find their appropriate discovery in the labyrinth under Crete, [... more]
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Esprit De Corps (Faber paper covered editions)
Great light comic entertainment: I came across an old paperback edition of Stiff Upper Lip and Esprit de Corps--they were not what I had expected of Durrell, but I was so happy to find them. Today, both of these collections would no doubt be considered [... more]
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The Dark Labyrinth
Clever, surprising, a delight, pure Durrell: Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet) originally published this "adventure" under another name, but it's pure Durrell; multiple character's find their appropriate discovery in the labyrinth under Crete, [... more]
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Spirit of Place
A Durrell treasure chest: Here we have a marvelous collection of short works by Lawrence Durrell that should satisfy both beginners and older Durrell addicts. We all know that, as the most brilliant member of a brilliant family, LD had an enviably [... more]
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The Black Book
One of my favorite books. Gorgeous use of language.: This is a magnificent book. The legend around it is that Durrell sent the manuscript for this to Henry Miller, in Paris, and asked that he read it and then toss it in the Seine... Miller read it, and [... more]
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The Alexandria Quartet
Alexandria Quartet: Alexandria Quartet Popular literary pundits tend to present works in their preferred hierarchical order. Thus Ulysses and War and Peace on the highest levels and Tobacco Road on the lowest. Controversy usually follows, one arguing [... more]
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