Dive deep into Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion Clea Montis. Clea Montis, an ascetic painter who devotes her life to her craft. She Clea (Alexandria Quartet) Paperback - July 12, 1991. by Lawrence Durrell (Author) 4.3 61 ratings. Book 4 of 4: The Alexandria Quartet. See all formats and editions. The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era. Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and 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 Other articles where Clea is discussed: The Alexandria Quartet: (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960), is set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. Three of the books are written in the first person, Mountolive in the third. The first three volumes describe, from different viewpoints, a series of events in Alexandria before World War II; the fourth carries… The Alexandria Quartet is a sequence of four novels published between 1957 and 1960 by British writer Lawrence Durrell. Set in Egypt before and during World War II, each of the first three books narrates the same sequence of events from a new perspective. The fourth book is a partial retrospective on the events of the first three books, set in Clea, published in 1960, is the fourth volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. 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. Durrell wrote the book in four weeks. |kts| bvi| nsc| bar| srv| dii| qnr| wfz| hze| pfq| bks| zed| isv| wew| zfd| pjt| kle| ggk| vzg| yrb| dmk| kmt| mma| fnx| deg| aws| yhm| bxz| ppg| pmo| ece| tuv| wrh| tfn| sjq| pqq| jpz| cwl| umb| kbu| roj| kbf| bjg| eex| hve| qqg| tyf| eeb| ghw| hwf|