The first three present the perspectives of different people of a single set of events in Alexandria in the years just before the Second World War the fourth book is set six years later. In order they are Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960), each book taking its title from one of its leading characters. The four novels that form The Alexandria Quartet were published between 19. He finally settled in Provence, where he lived for thirty years before his death in 1990. His official postings and private sojourns during and after World War II inspired much of his work – and “inspire” is the right word: he writes memorably of Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus and Egypt. To augment his income from writing Durrell worked for some years for the Foreign Office. He first became known for his poetry his prose writing took some years to achieve recognition but has remained his enduring legacy. Sent off to England at the age of eleven for his education, then failing to make it into Cambridge, Durrell took his disenchantment abroad, spending much of his life in the eastern Mediterranean. Lawrence George Durrell 1 was born in India in 1912 to British colonial parents. No, not a small band of string players but the crowning achievement of English novelist Lawrence Durrell, and arguably one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. LAWRENCE DURRELL – THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
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