Clea
Written by Lawrence Durrell
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton
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Lawrence Durrell
Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912 to Indian-born British colonials, Lawrence Durrell was a critically hailed and beloved novelist, poet, humorist, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet novels, which were ranked by the Modern Library as among the greatest works of English literature in the twentieth century. A passionate and dedicated writer from an early age, Durrell’s prolific career also included the groundbreaking Avignon Quintet, whose first novel, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and whose third novel, Constance (1982), was nominated for the Booker Prize. He also penned the celebrated travel memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize. Durrell corresponded with author Henry Miller for forty-five years, and Miller influenced much of his early work, including a provocative and controversial novel, The Black Book (1938). Durrell died in France in 1990.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond brilliance. Beyond bliss. Inimitable. Superb reading of Durrell's masterpiece.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The last of this very beautiful quartet. The superb writing is so strong and evocative that one feels as though one were in Alexandria. My favorite of the four books is Mountolive which is truly the glue that keeps the quartet together, but each book is riveting and highly original. Very few writers have such mastery over words.