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Clea : a novel

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Description: The fourth volume in a tetralogy consisting of four interlocking novels, each of which recounts various aspects of a complex story of passion and deception from differing points of view. The novels are set in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s. This final volume relates subsequent events.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: mcmlxiii [1963]
Call number: 660892
Creator: Durrell, Lawrence(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0571058418; 9780571058419; 0571045154; 9780571045150

Justine : a novel

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Story of the modern Egyptian city of Alexandria, in which an Irish schoolmaster, a passionate, tormented Jewess, a Greek cabaret dancer, and a Coptic financier play out their destinies amid decadent surroundings symbolic of an erotic world.

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Balthazar : a novel

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Once again Durrell writes of Justine, Melissa, Clea, Nessim, Pursewarden, Scobie, Pombal -- but from a fresh point of view. The new insights are provided by the psychiatrist, Balthazar, who convinces the narrator that the first volume of the story was almost wholly inaccurate. So this second volume is a correction and an expansion of the first.

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Mountolive : a novel

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In Mountolive, the third volume in the Alexandrian Quartet, as war begins to loom, British Ambassador David Mountolive enters the intrigues of the interwoven community of characters. The story told in the two previous volumes is complicated further through the lens of this new character... The love stories are incredibly deep and diverse, and Durrell's writing is both beautiful and inspiring. Mountolive is an Englishman working with the Foreign Service who comes to know his Dionysian self in the humidity and turmoil of early 20th century Egypt. He falls in love with his married hostess, and this relationship leaves him capable of loving only one woman and one place. The other notable couples portray a stunning array of what drives people toward love. A desire for power drives Justine and Nessim together as it does much more subtlely in the vignette about Amaril and Semira. This book stands out on its own but leaves you dying to find out more about these rich characters. --Cathryn JT at Amazon.com.

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Book of Hours : [manuscript]

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ff. 1-92v (+ f. 43 bis): [Book of Hours]: ff. 3-27: [f. 3, ruled, but blank], Hours of the Passion with, after lauds, suffrages of Catherine of Alexandria, John the Evangelist, and Peter and Paul and after none, a suffrage ""de annunciatione dominica""; ff. 27v-30v: Passion according to John; ff. 31-40v: [f. 31, ruled, but blank], Hours of the Compassion of the Virgin; ff. 41-44: [f. 41, ruled, but blank], Prayers to the Holy Spirit; ff. 44v-55: Long hours of the Holy Spirit; ff. 55-58v: Prayers to Jesus; ff. 59-68: [ff. 59-60, blank], Long Hours of the Holy Name of Jesus; ff. 68-73v: Prayers to Jesus; ff. 73v-79: Prayers on the passion of Christ and of penance; ff. 79-86v: Prayers to the Trinitiy, ""psalters"" to the Trinity, Psalter of St. Jerome. ff. 90-92v, blank.

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Love, again : a novel

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An old woman falls in love with a man who could be her grandson. She is Sarah Durham, 65, a widow working in the theater in England and she develops a passion for a young actor. A look at love in the golden age by the author of The Golden Notebook.

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Timber : a historical novel of the Pacific Northwest

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A novel about the labor movement in Everett from the point of view of timbermen, shingle-weavers, and laborers, including the 1916 Everett Massacre and the subsequent trials.

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