The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence DurrellLawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960). Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. One L. G. Darley is the primary observer of the events, which include events in the lives

'Can I give this life to you

who gets hungrier the more he eats

choose shoes together

Good professionals learn the trade

Anton Chekhov's Plays is translated with notes by Peter Carson

and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth

In a neutral buffer zone in America that divides the world's new rival superpowers

The recipes of the food served were exclusively with the cooks of the palaces and a lucky few who inherited them from earlier generations

By integrating the best of Western research with Eastern traditions

In Rohan Chhetri’s much-awaited second collection

'Mrs Dalloway contains some of the most beautiful

Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks