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Justine : a novel

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Description: 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1963.
Call number: 660894
Creator: Durrell, Lawrence(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0571056792; 9780571056798
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson. With autograph signature: "K.S. Robinson, Bern Aug. 8, 1977".

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.

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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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This pounding wheel : a novel

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"Running like a basic theme through this dramatic novel of intrigue and passionate love is the mighty Chesapeake and Ohio, a swashbuckling giant armored in steel, clanking grandly fourth to joust with the elements of gravity and space. Here is all the sweep and color of the great days when railroading was young, a dashing chapter in the history of one of America's greatest industries"--Jacket.

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Gravedigger : a Dave Brandstetter novel

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"Two years ago Charles Westover disgraced himself and his family when he was disbarred for bribery. Westover's daughter Serenity, disgusted with her once beloved father, ran away to a cult founded by a mesmerizingly handsome young man, a self-appointed messiah going by the grimly grandiose name of Azrael. The whereabouts of Serenity pass unknown for years until the police raid Azrael's compound and discover that the cult leader lived up to his ghastly 'Angel of Death' moniker. Thinking his daughter has been murdered, Charles Westover claims her life insurance, and then he too vanishes. Insurance companies don't like to cut a check without a body and especially don't like when the recepient [that is, recipient] is also missing. Hired as a private investigator, David Brandstetter quickly finds himself in a complicated maze of lies and hidden histories. It's not all bad times and extreme hazard for our man Dave. A passionate romance has entered his life with the reappearance of Cecil Harris, a handsome young African American investigative reporter for the local news station looking to get to the bottom of a different kind of story"--Back cover.

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