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The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria , before and during the Second World War. The fourth book is set six years later.

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“The Copts — the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse than infidels, and your Crusaders massacred them joyfully.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960), Mountolive (1958)

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“For the body is only the outer periphery of the spirit, its solid part.”

Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet

Quarteto de Alexandria, ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

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