THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

Lawrence Durrell was one of the bestselling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is h is most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Egypt. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley a ttempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling explora tion of sexual and political intrigue that Durrell himself described as 'an investigation of modern love'One of the most important works of o...[Read more]