THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET: JUSTINE, BALTHAZAR, MOUNTOLIVE, CLEA

Book ID/图书代码： 03540010B42941

English Summary/英文概要： Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most famous and admired work, one he described as ’an investigation of modern love’. It explores the sexual and political intrigues of a group of expatriates in Egypt before and during the Second World War.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Lawrence Durrell是20世紀末最負盛名的英國暢銷書小說家。《亞歷山大四重唱》無疑是他最受歡迎的一部作品，被作者譽為“現代愛情的偵察兵”。本書探究了二戰前夕及二戰期間，發生在埃及的一些外來僑民之間，關於性和政治陰謀方面的問題。(FSF)

Awards/获奖情况：’Durrell was a master at creating and handling tension ... I was fascinated from the start.’ -- Wilbur Smith

’One of the most important works of our time.’ -- New York Times Book Review’Intoxicating.’ -- Niall Ferguson

’A formidable, glittering achievement.’ --Times Literary Supplement

’The writing is nearly always superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also in the asides, the casual wit and brilliance of comment.’ -- Philip Toynbee, Observer

’There can be no doubt of the magnitude of Durrell’s achievement.’ --George Steiner

About the Author/作者介绍： 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 1958. 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, appeared a few days before his death in Sommières in 1990.
Lawrence Durrell于1912年出生於印度，就讀於印度大吉嶺耶穌派學院以及坎特伯雷耶穌會學院。他的處女作The Black Book，1958年在巴黎問世。他的首部詩集，A Private Country於1943年出版。之後又撰寫了三本關於島嶼的系列書籍。Lawrence Durrell在埃及逗留期間成就了他的驚世之作The Alexandria Quartet，這部作品在他1957年開始定居的法國南部最終得以完成。他的全部作品包括劇本、評論、翻譯、旅行文學作品、關於外交使節團的幽默故事等等。他的反映普羅旺斯歷史文化的作品以及一些後期詩歌Caesar’s Vast Ghost也於1990年，Lawrence Durrell去世前不久與讀者見面。

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