- Fiction, Diplomats, Alexandria Quartet, NOVELA
The characters are given a very differrent perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism of a world plunging towards a second world war. Mountolive returns to Egypy as the British ambassador.
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- Author
- Lawrence Durrell
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Bertelsmann Lesering, Faber & Faber, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- English, French, Russian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781453266502
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“As a junior of exceptional promise, he had been sent to Egypt for a year in order to improve his Arabic and found himself attached to the High Commission as a sort of scribe to await his first diplomatic posting; but he was already conducting himself as a young secretary of legation, fully aware of the responsibilities of future office.”
Lawrence George Durrell (Jalandhar, India, 27 February 1912-Sommières, France, 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Durrell resisted being associated solely with the UK and preferred to be considered a cosmopolitan. His most famous work is *The Alexandria Quartet,* published between 1957 and 1960. The best-known novel in the series is the first, *Justine.* He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
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