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"The politics of love, the intrigues of desire, good and evil, virtue and caprice, love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria’s streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms - moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of plot and counter-plot."
In Balthazar, the second volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the story and the characters come more clearly into focus. Darley, the reflective Englishman, receives from Balthazar, the pathologist, a mass of notes that attempt to explain what really happened between the tempestuous Justine, her husband, Nessim, Clea the artist, and Pursewarden the writer; new figures emerge and play key roles. Balthazar, in his "Interlinear", explains and warns.
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Justine is the first volume in the Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense, wife to the wealthy businessman Nessim, a Mari complaisant. Her emotional and sexual wildness fuels a highly charged atmosphere.
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Too highly regarded by critics?
- De David P. Wingert en 02-11-23
De: Lawrence Durrell
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Justine
- De: Lawrence Durrell
- Narrado por: Nigel Anthony
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Justine is the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense, wife to the wealthy business man Nessim, a mari complaisant.
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A Crime to Abridge
- De Lawrence en 08-12-04
De: Lawrence Durrell
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Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays
- De: Michel de Montaigne
- Narrado por: Peter Wickham
- Duración: 53 h y 12 m
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In 1572, Montaigne - nobleman, humanist, and thoroughly Renaissance man - retired to the seclusion of his estate in the Dordogne and started to write. From his pen poured a stream of "essays" - attempts to capture the observations that came to him on an idiosyncratic range of subjects, from ancient customs, cannibals, and books to thumbs, war-horses, and the wearing of clothes. He made the study of himself the starting point for investigations into how to live, and wrote with a startlingly modern candor about love, grief, friendship, sex, and death.
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Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady, Volume 1
- De: Samuel Richardson
- Narrado por: Samuel West, Lucy Scott, Roger May, y otros
- Duración: 33 h y 40 m
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A milestone in the history of the novel, Samuel Richardson’s epistolary and elaborate Clarissa follows the life of a chaste young woman desperate to protect her virtue. When beautiful Clarissa Harlowe is forced to marry the rich but repulsive Mr. Solmes, she refuses, much to her family’s chagrin. She escapes their persecution with the help of Mr. Lovelace, a dashing and seductive rake, but soon finds herself in a far worse dilemma. Terrifying and enlightening, Clarissa weaves a tapestry of narrative experimentation into a gripping morality tale of good versus evil.
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Gripping Novel & Performance
- De Harold en 07-29-18
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Heart of Darkness
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: David Horovitch
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On a becalmed yawl in the Thames estuary, Marlow tells a tale of Africa. His job there is to find the enigmatic Kurtz, but his journey further and further upriver reveals the brutality of the white Imperialists who run the country. Established as one of the great English novels, and a story of mythic power, Heart of Darkness is rich in meaning – allusive, enthralling, and haunting.
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The Horror! The Horror!
- De Ilana en 06-18-16
De: Joseph Conrad
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The Consolation of Philosophy
- De: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
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Charged with treason under Theodoric the Great in sixth-century Rome, Boethius served one year's imprisonment, awaiting trial and eventual execution. During this time, he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, which would go on to be one of the most popular philosophical works of all time, contributing much to medieval thought and influencing the likes of Dante and Chaucer, as well as Renaissance writers, such as Milton and Shakespeare.
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The Bestseller for a 1000 Years
- De Ken en 02-05-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Balthazar
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- Bean McGrath
- 09-23-22
The perfect voice
I have loved Justine for years. Nicholas Bolton has the perfect voice for Darley. He perfectly iterates Durrell’s descriptions -the people -and of course, Alexandria.
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- David P. Wingert
- 02-19-23
Brilliant prose. Classic?
While the prose is often quite beautiful, the story does not leave a lasting impression.
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- Lina M. Cortas
- 09-01-21
Disappointed in the reader
I am, once again, disappointed in Audible’s choice of reader. Nicolas Boulton read the whole book with a sense of urgency—the same level of urgency—an urgency that is not necessary for the story. And is there really no one who can pronounce English, French, and Arabic properly?
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- David C.
- 05-25-22
In the Season of Carnival in Alexandria
#balthazar is the second volume in the #alexandriaquartet by #lawrencedurrell and, rather than continuing the tale of sex and upper class debauchery in the ancient seaside city of #alexandria in #egypt as the nation braces for the coming war between #hitler 's #germany and the rest of Europe, retells much of the story from the perspective of Balthazar, a #jewish Alexandria doctor and a scholar of the #kaballah whom instructs this community of principle characters in the city. Having attracted the attentions and suspicions of the #british #secretservice of #cairo, the original narrator #darley, an expatriate #irish teacher of English, is compelled by the Secret Service through #scobie , an English #bimbashi (major) in the #turkish #police which technically controls Egypt who also happens to be an officer in the British Secret Service, is compelled to spy on the members of the #cabal , with whom he runs. Darley also happens to be carrying on an illicit affair with #justine , the title character of the first book who is also married to a powerful #coptic banker who belongs to a very powerful and very old Alexandria family.
Tracked down in exile on a remote Greek isle with the child of another illicit relationship between Darley's mistress and Justine's husband by Balthazar, to whom Darley had sent the manuscript of the book Justine, the old Alexandria doctor had made numerous notes to the novel manuscript that gave greater clarity to the real events that inspired the work of fiction. This prompts the telling of one major significant event that occurred during Carnival, strangely celebrated in this mostly Muslim city as a universally indulged three days of decadence.
I found this story fascinating as I was unaware of the holiday, traditionally associated with overwhelming Catholic communities, which is still celebrated in Alexandria today. Though not as graphic as #henrymiller , his influence is obvious and Durrell's appreciation of #grahamgreene and the interesting #scobie connection grows clearer in this decadent account of ex-pat life in colonial Egypt. Book Three, #mountolive , is already in my queue. #readtheworld #readtheworldchallenge @globalreadingchallenge #englishnovel #englishliterature #modernlibrarytop100novels
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