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  • Balthazar

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series Book 2 - The Alexandria Quartet
    The second Alexandria Quartet novel, which boldly questions perception and the nature of contemporary love, from the New York Times –bestselling author.In Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before World War II, Durrell's narrator, Darley, seeks to fully understand his sexual obsession with two women: the infamous Justine, and Melissa, a dancer. In Darley's conversations with Balthazar, a doctor and ... Read more

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  • Justine

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Alexandria Quartet
    The New York Times –bestselling author's "very remarkable" first Alexandria novel tells a haunting story of love, desire, and deception in pre-WWII Egypt ( New York Herald Tribune Book Review ).Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between World Wars I and II, Justine is the first installment in the distinguished Alexandria Quartet. Here Lawrence Durrell crafts an exqui... ... Read more

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  • The Dark Labyrinth

    A Novel

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A morality tale from the New York Times –bestselling author that will "delight lovers of the sensuous world of the Greek islands" ( The New York Times ).A group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete's famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent gi... ... Read more

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  • The Black Book

    by Durrell,Lawrence ...
    Excerpt Let us take a novelist-in-the-cupboard peep at Tarquin. He has already managed to crawl out of his tepid bed and lift the window sash. The sight of the snow disgusts him. By instinct he hops back and draws the covers up to his chin, trying to hurl himself back into dream with skinny ferocity. No good. Then he remembers the dream he was having and broods pleasantly upon it. A girl on a ... Read more

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  • Spirit of Place

    Letters and Essays on Travel

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The definitive collection of travel writings by the New York Times –bestselling author and one of the twentieth century's best-loved journeyers.From the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece and ... Read more

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  • The Avignon Quintet

    Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, and Quinx

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series series The Avignon Quintet
    From the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet comes a landmark five-part series hailed as "one of the great novels of our time" ( Sunday Times ).One of the most celebrated English writers ever, Lawrence Durrell was a bestselling author whose vivid metafictions pushed the boundaries of modern literature. The cosmopolitan provocateur transcended borders, ide... ... Read more

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  • Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One

    Blue Thirst, Sicilian Carousel, and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Travel writing "as luminous as the Mediterranean air" from the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet ( Time ).Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle, along with his brother, Gerald, who would also go on to be a writer and a natur... ... Read more

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  • Nunquam

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series Book 2 - The Revolt of Aphrodite
    A desperate scientist's mastery of technology may save him—or be his undoing—in this follow-up to Tunc by the New York Times–bestselling literary master.The ominous and compelling sequel to Durrell's Tunc finds gifted inventor Felix Charlock called upon by the sinister international firm, Merlin, to apply his scientific prowess to a seemingly impossible project. He must literally reinvent his lost ... Read more

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  • The Best of Antrobus

    Tales of Diplomatic Misadventure

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The finest of the classic short stories of diplomatic mischief from the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.Dark is the day when culture comes to Sczbog. The capital of Vulgaria, nestled snugly behind the Iron Curtain, has long been devoid of higher thought, and that is the way the men in the British embassy like it. But when the French embassy gives a lecture on ... Read more

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  • The Alexandria Quartet

    Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series series The Alexandria Quartet
    The New York Times –bestselling author's four-part story of passion and betrayal—voted one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century.The Alexandria Quartet is a striking and sensuous masterpiece, breathing vivid life into each of its unforgettable characters and the dusty Mediterranean city in which they live. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before, during, and after ... Read more

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  • Sicilian Carousel

    Adventures on an Italian Island

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A moving account of friendship and discovery on the island of Sicily by the New York Times –bestselling travel writer and author of the Alexandria Quartet.Despite decades spent writing poetic evocations of the timeless pleasures of life in the Mediterranean, Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the sea's largest island: mysterious, impenetrable Sicily. For years his friend Martine begged him to ... Read more

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  • Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

    Life on a Mediterranean Island

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet: "A superlative piece of . . . writing . . . rooted in the Mediterranean scene" ( Time).In 1953, as the British Empire relaxes its grip upon the world, the island of Cyprus bucks for independence. Some cry for union with Athens, others for an arrangement that would split the island down the middle, giving half to the Greeks and ... Read more

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