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 ... Read More
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 Read Less
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Add this copy of Mountolive to cart. $12.04, 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.
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Very Good. 1961. Hardback. Fourth printing. Third book in the Alexandra Quartet. Fine in fine dust wrapper, sunned to spine and nicked to top edge. DW showing light shelf wear. Pages lightly toned, text is clear and remains a fine copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Alexandria Quartet. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very Good. 1958. paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good. With bookplate inside front cover from the library of Michael Viney.
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New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Alexandria Quartet. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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.
