num_pages: 880
description: Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria. In this world of corrupt glamour, L. G. Darley attempts to reconcile himself to the end of his affair with the dark, passionate Justine Hosnani - setting alight a beguiling exploration of sexual and political intrigue that the author himself described as 'an investigation of modern love'.
language: English
title: The Alexandria Quartet
titlecomplete: The Alexandria Quartet
genres: Fiction, Egypt, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 11804
places: Egypt, Alexandria
series: Alexandria Quartet
publisher: Faber and Faber