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... the multiple character perspective:
Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet:
Justine
Balthazar
Mountolive
Clea
Paul Scott's Raj quartet
The Jewel in the Crown
The Day of the Scorpion
The Towers of Silence
A Division of the Spoils
#46 Clea by Lawrence Durrell
(The fourth book in the Alexandria Quartet series)
288 pages
4 stars
... tells the story of Justine through different eyes, MountOlive covers the timeline of both the earlier novels, and Clea looks back with hindsight at the events of the previous three books. It doesn't have the cast or breadth of history of Scott's quartet, but I think it explores its ...
... Marcel Proust 04/23/09
117. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig 04/24/09
118. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell 04/24/09
119. Clea by Lawrence Durrell 04/26/09
120. Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos 4/28/09
FILM: Please Vote For Me (2007); The Weather Undergroun ...
... Marcel Proust 04/23/09
117. Chess Story by Stefan Zweig 04/24/09
118. Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell 04/24/09
119. Clea by Lawrence Durrell 04/26/09
... Sale. I spent almost 2 hours and forced myself to leave, was only $4 over budget and got these great books:
Justine, Clea , Mountolive, and Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell – The Alexandria Quartet – all hardcovers, 2 are first editions
Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt ...
... (1st edition / 5th impression), Balthazar (1st edition / 6th impression), Mountolive (1st edition / 4th impression) and Clea (1st edition / 4th impression). Admittedly, the omnibus edition is the preferred writer's text, and the Folio edition is taken from that. And I'm also told that each ...
#15 karenmarie - I think the official order goes Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and then Clea . You should definitely read them when you get a chance!
... ago and I loved it. Such an interesting way of looking at how the kids respond to crisis.
Also, having just finished Clea , I think The Alexandria Quartet is well worth a revisit!
# 64 Clea by Lawrence Durrell
Loved it, loved it, loved it. The whole series is fantastic, and I think Clea caps it perfectly.
Bleak House, still, very slowly. I'm also halfway through Clea by Lawrence Durrell, and then I'll have finished The Alexandria Quartet. I highly recommend it - all four books are wonderful!
After that, I'll have much more time to devote to Bleak House.
... plot sometimes is, Justine and Balthazar are beautiful, almost like poetry, and Mountolive was just a story. On to Clea !
... which develops it all a step further, and it's retold yet again in Mountolive, but from a much clearer prespective, and Clea is the dazzling finale to Durrell's masterpiece. I've read them all twice over the years, and just reread Justine again about 2 years ago.
... Quartet I was made aware of his darker side, which continued to reveal itself in the other three books Mount Olive, Clea and Balthazar. Nevertheless, I was reading them in my relative youth, in the late 70s, and was rather proud of myself for doing so (faux intellectualism?). At any ...
... separate books that cover the same basic events in Alexandria from four different viewpoints ... the individual titles are Clea , Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive ... pretty good stuff here ... he also wrote a five-book series that tries to do the same thing, but I haven't read that.
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