The intrigues of Justine and Balthazar multiply and deepen in the third volume of the Alexandria Quartet, giving us a novel of labyrinthine intricacy and mesmerizing beauty. In the first two novels of this profoundly innovative masterpiece, Lawrence Durrell explored two sides of a romantic quadrangle involving several inhabitants of prewar Alexandria. Now that geometry is seen from a startling new angle--through the clinical eye of a British diplomat, for whom love is only another form of statecraft. Like its ...
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The intrigues of Justine and Balthazar multiply and deepen in the third volume of the Alexandria Quartet, giving us a novel of labyrinthine intricacy and mesmerizing beauty. In the first two novels of this profoundly innovative masterpiece, Lawrence Durrell explored two sides of a romantic quadrangle involving several inhabitants of prewar Alexandria. Now that geometry is seen from a startling new angle--through the clinical eye of a British diplomat, for whom love is only another form of statecraft. Like its predecessors, Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. "Durrell is almost without peer in conveying atmosphere and mood. Even if his Alexandria never existed on this earth, it is now as real as Hawthorne's Rome, Proust's Paris, Loti's Constantinople. . . . Mountolive is dazzlingly cohesive, beautifully controlled from beginning to end."-- Saturday Review "A work of splendid craft and troubling veracity."-- The New York Times " Mountolive has vivid imagery and scenes of ghastly hilarity. . . . Readers will be sharply aware that they are encountering an acute intelligence pursuing a grand design."-- TIME
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Add this copy of Mountolive (Alexandria Quartet) to cart. $6.07, good condition, Sold by SELL BOOKS LTD rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from London, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1991 by Penguin.
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Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $12.07, good condition, Sold by GreatBookPricesUK5 rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castle Donington, DERBYSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1991 by Penguin Publishing Group.
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Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Alexandria Quartet. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $12.42, new condition, Sold by Books2anywhere rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fairford, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2021 by Faber & Faber.
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Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $40.93, very good condition, Sold by Alpha 2 Omega Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southampton, HANTS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1958 by Faber and Faber.
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Very good. No Dj cover. VGC. Faber and Faber, 1958. First UK edition-first impression. Yellow hardback(some foxing marks and ink mark on the cover and spine, gilt lettering to the spine) in VGC, no Dj cover. Nice and clean pages with two small foxing marks and ink marks on the outer edges, small foxing marks and mark inside the edges of the first blank page of the book. The book is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear.320pp including Note.
Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $40.96, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1958 by Faber and Faber.
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Very good Good jacket. First Edition. First edition. Faber and Faber 1958. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Unclipped Dust Jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $62.09, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1958 by Faber & Faber.
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Very good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. Previous owners name in pen on FFEP. No jacket. Light rubbing to corners. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $105.64, very good condition, Sold by John C. Newland rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cheltenham, Glos., UNITED KINGDOM, published 1958 by Faber & Faber.
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Used-Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket. Book Society bookplate, but this is the true First edition, in unclipped first state dj with no reviews on flap. Dust jacket slightly worn at head of spine; dj spine slightly browned.
Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $342.00, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1958 by Faber and Faber.
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None. Very Good Indeed in Near Fine jacket. An excellent first edition copy of this novel by Lawrence Durrell in its original, unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. The third of a quartet of novels known as the Alexandria Quartet, published before the publication of the last novel. Published as its own novel, this volume is great to read by itself, although more can be gained by reading the complete group. The longest, most entertaining, and not the least overwhelming of the first three novels according to its dustwrapper. Set in Alexandria around the Second World War, the story told in all four novels is essentially the same, but from different points of view, to reach a conclusion inĀ Clea. This book is the only one written in a third person narrative and the most overtly political. With unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear and slight bumping ot head and tail of spine. inscribed by a previous owner to front free endpaper, dated 1987. Dustwrapper is unclipped and excellent with only minor shelfwear, with a small inscription by a previous owner to front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed.
Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $558.78, very good condition, Sold by Halcyon Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LONDON, LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1959 by Faber and Faber.
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Very Good jacket. First Edition. First edition, Third impression, Pages clean and bright, Binding firm, Light wear to edges, Dust jacket unclipped. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
