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First editions of each of the novels comprising the author's acclaimed Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original cloth, 4 volumes. Each volume is very good in a very good to near fine dust jacket. A very bright set of Durrell's acclaimed novel cycle. Lawrence Durrell's masterpiece The Alexandria Quartet are four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The first of his four novels Justine "demands comparison with the best books of our century." Balthazar continues Durrell s epic series with "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" and, in the third novel Mountolive, Durrell again creates a "work of splendid craft and troubling veracity." The tetralogy s final novel Clea completes Durrell s stated design of modeling "the series on the relativity proposition in physics" altogether achieving "a spontaneous, resourceful new beauty" (New York Times). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Mountolive is the third volume of The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in pre-World War II Alexandria, Egypt, Mountolive is part of a sequence of novels that tell a complex story of passion, politics, and betrayal. The series is celebrated for its rich and intricately woven narrative and exploration of modern love.