Mountolive - Softcover

Lawrence Durrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0525470824 ISBN 13: 9780525470823

Publisher: Dutton Books, 1961

Synopsis

MOUNTOLIVE by LAWRENCE DURRELL Published by FABER & FABER 1958. Paperback. In acceptable condition. Some cover wear.

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St. Edmund's School, Canterbury. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1938. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: Prospero's Cell; Reflections on a Marine Venus, about Rhodes; and Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet, which he completed in southern France, where he settled permanently in 1957. Between the quartet and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps. Caesar's Vast Ghost, his reflections on the history and culture of Provence, including a late flowering of poems, was published a few days before his death in Sommieres in 1990.

Synopsis:

The intrigues of "Justine" and "Balthazar" multiply and deepen in this third volume of "The Alexandria Quartet".

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Publication date: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0525470824
• ISBN 13: 9780525470823
• Binding: Paperback