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Balthazar : a novel

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Description: 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.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1963.
Call number: 660895
Creator: Durrell, Lawrence(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0571055796; 9780571055791
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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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Clea : a novel

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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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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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In the road

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"For Miyoshi, who continues to travel widely as if enticed by the images in his mind, chance encounters are an inevitability. Wherever he trains his lens, there seem to be subjects that linger with carefree expressions, as if having realized their own fate. So fine are his prints, which conjure a quiet monochrome world, that one can almost hear their presence and breathing. The catalogue contains 69 pictures that offer fresh insights into the origins of Kozo Miyoshi"--Publisher's description.

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Swann's way

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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time, also known as Remembrance of Things Past, Swann's Way is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume, the narrator tells of the excruciating romance of his country neighbor, M. Swann. The narrator reverts to his childhood, where he begins a similarly hopeless infatuation with Swann's little daughter, Gilberte. More than this apparently fragmented narrative, however, is the importance of the themes of memory, time, and art that connect and interweave the man's memories. Considered to be one of the twentieth century's major novels, Proust ultimately portrays the volatility of human life in this sweeping contemplation of reality and time.

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Balthazar : a novel

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