In terms of style it could be said to be a little mannered. Set in alexandria, egypt, around world war ii, the first three volumes tell the same story from different points of view, and clea relates subsequent events. One of lawrence durrells best books indeed, in its gemlike miniature quality, among the best books. The author points out that the first three novels these two. That said it remains a work that evokes an alexandria that has since been pretty comprehensively trampled in to the dust by a billion tourists feet. His first literary work, the black book, appeared in. The alexandria quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime alexandria.
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