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... that employ 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
#45 Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
(The third book in the Alexandria Quartet series)
... depth - if only because of its construction. After all, Balthazar 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 ...
116. Time Regained by 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); T ...
116. Time Regained by 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
The Alexandria Quarter is brilliant. I just finished rereading it. Mountolive was my favorite of the four.
... 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
Agatha ...
... $1000 and $3000. My copies are Justine (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 ...
#15 karenmarie - I think the official order goes Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive , and then Clea. You should definitely read them when you get a chance!
# 62 Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell
Book 3 in The Alexandria Quartet is told a little differently than 1 & 2. The narrative is much more straightforward, so the plot makes a lot more sense. I miss Darley as the narrator, though. Unreliable as he may be, and confusing as the plot ...
#19, jfetting: You should really like Mountolive , especially since it has the most straightforward approach of any of the 4 books, and clears up any plot ambiguity that might be lingering from the first two. I've run across others who suggest that if you're gonna read the Alexandria Quartet, ...
... it's great, but I'm reading it slowly since it's really long and not super transportable.
My other read this week is Mountolive , book three in The Alexandria Quartet. I just finished Balthazar yesterday, which showed everything that happened in Justine in a completely new light, so ...
... mysterious story from one angle, followed by Balthazar 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 Justi ...
... of The Alexandria 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 ...
... I think, but truly a terrific book. I recall the first time I read the Alexandria Quartet, that it was only after I read Mountolive , the third book, that I finally understood everything that went on in Justine.
... 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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