How are the novels 'Justine', 'Balthazar', 'Mountolive' and 'Clea' by Lawrence Durrell known collectively?
"trick with the one you've got, why, shut your eyes and imagine the one you can't get. Who knows? It's perfectly legal and secret. It's the marriage of true minds!' "" Or, "" ' Great heavens! Here we are quarreling like a couple of newly-weds. Soon we shall marry and live in filthy compatibility, feasting on each other's blackheads. Ugh! Dreadful isogamy of the Perfect Match ... ' "" Balthazar (novel) Balthazar, published in 1958, is the second volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt around World War II, the four novels"
"with the workings of the British secret service, a story-line that becomes much more extended and eventually takes centre-stage in the next two books of the quartet, ""Balthazar"" and, especially, ""Mountolive"". Durrell makes many references in ""Justine"" to the Greek Alexandrian poet Constantin Cavafy, and thus, the novel introduced Cavafy to a wide new audience in the English-speaking world. Two of Cavafy's poems, ""The City"" and ""The God Abandons Antony"", translated by Durrell, are included as ""workpoints"" in the Appendix, implying that the poems have something to say about the narrator and his plight. Justine (Durrell novel) Justine, published in"
"love. Concentration on the love-object and possession are the poisons.)"", thus neatly subverting the entire premise of Justine. Which is why Balthazar and not Justine is the true ""Modern Novel"" in the entire Quartet. It might even be argued that the success of Justine is entirely due to its fulfilling the public's expectations of what a novel is supposed to be about, and look like – although the distinct authorial voice and the stylistic magnificence had no small part to play in its enduring fascination for the discerning prose reader. Even Mountolive was described by Durrell as ""a straight naturalistic"
"at the outbreak of war in 1939. A novelist of Irish descent, Farrell gained prominence for his historical fiction, most notably his ""Empire Trilogy"" (""Troubles"", ""The Siege of Krishnapur"" and ""The Singapore Grip""), dealing with the political and human consequences of British colonial rule. However, his career ended when he drowned in Ireland in 1979 at the age of 44. Helen Forrester was the pen name of June Bhatia (née Huband) (1919–2011), who was known for her books about her early childhood in Liverpool during the Great Depression, including ""Twopence to Cross the Mersey"" (1974), as well as several works"
"Mystery Macavity Award and the 2010 Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award. The fourth novel in the series, ""A City of Broken Glass"", was nominated for the 2013 Mary Higgins Clark Award and the 2013 Sue Feder Historical Mystery Macavity Award. Cantrell collaborated with novelist James Rollins to write the Order of the Sanguines trilogy. The first novel in the series, ""The Blood Gospel"", was a ""New York Times"" best seller. Cantrell is also the author of a series of novels featuring Joe Tesla, an agoraphobic millionaire who is confined to Grand Central Terminal and the tunnels under New York"
"John Constable, Joseph Wright of Derby, John Martin (""Landscape with a Castle""), J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, Ford Madox Brown, James McNeill Whistler ("")"". ""The Canterbury Tales"" and the novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (Pamela Andrews, Mr B), ""The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle"" (Jack Hatchway, Commodore Trunnion), ""Tristram Shandy"", ""A Sentimental Journey"" (Parson Yorick), ""The Mill on the Floss"", ""Wuthering Heights"" (Catherine Earnshaw).<br> 16. A long poem in the style of William Blake, celebrating English poetry from Cædmon to Ernest Dowson.<br> 18. ""Le Morte d'Arthur"" (Fisher King, Merlin). T.S. Eliot Reaction to the novel was largely negative. Many critics found Ackroyd's"
"Constance (novel) Constance, or ""Solitary Practices"" (1982) is the central volume of the five novels of Lawrence Durrell's ""The Avignon Quintet,"" published from 1974 to 1985. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1982. Involving some of the characters from the preceding ""Livia,"" the novel also introduces new ones. It is set before and during World War II, in France, Egypt, Poland and Switzerland. The novel is set in the period from the outbreak of World War II in 1939 with the Nazi invasion of Poland, to the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Its settings include Avignon,"
"novels, which is reflected in their stylistic features. The character of Livia may be modeled in part on Unity Mitford, one of the well-known Mitford sisters and a prominent supporter of fascism and friend of Adolf Hitler. The first novel, ""Monsieur,"" received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize of 1974. The middle novel, ""Constance,"" was nominated for the 1982 Booker Prize. While the Quintet did not receive the critical approval of his earlier ""Alexandria Quartet,"" Durrell was a bestselling and celebrated British author in this period. Records of the Swedish Academy that were opened in 2012 revealed that he had"
"these four novels are often referred to as the ""gothic"" or ""Godwinian"" novels. ""Stephen Calvert"", which appeared only in serialized form and in the posthumous 1815 biography, remained little-read until the end of the 20th century, but is notable as the first U.S. novel to thematize same-sex sexuality. ""Clara Howard"" and ""Jane Talbot"" have been regarded sometimes as relatively conventional works distinct from the earlier novels because they have classic epistolary form and concern domestic issues that seem very different from the violence and sensationalism of the first four novels. Recent scholarship (since the 1980s), however, has largely revised this"
"published several novels under his own name. Initially he had some success writing historical novels, most of them set in the Highlands and exploring the coming of change in the comparatively recent past. His best known novels from this phase of his writing career are ""John Splendid"", set around Montrose's campaign in the First Civil War and his attack on Inveraray, and ""Doom Castle"", set around the Jacobite rising of 1745, which was dramatised by the BBC in 1980. Later he attempted to expand his range, with more mixed success, writing novels with contemporary settings. These include ""The Daft Days""."
"Livia (novel) Livia, or Buried Alive (1978), is the second volume in British author Lawrence Durrell's ""The Avignon Quintet,"" published from 1974 to 1985. Durrell has described the novels as ""roped together like climbers on a rockface, but all independent . . . a series of books through which the same characters move for all the world as if to illustrate the notion of reincarnation."" The first novel of the quincunx, ""Monsieur,"" received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974. The protagonist is novelist Aubrey Blanford, introduced as a character 50 pages before the end of the first novel"
"Notable for an ability to combine serious literary acclaim with broad popularity, his novels include ""Brighton Rock"" (1938), ""The Power and the Glory"" (1940), ""The Heart of the Matter"" (1948), ""A Burnt-Out Case"" (1961), and ""The Human Factor"" (1978). Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell whose twelve-volume cycle of novels ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire ""Lucky Jim"" (1954); Nobel Prize"
"Jungle"" portrays tuberculosis as common among cattle reaching the meat-packing plants of Chicago. Sinclair wrote that ""men welcomed tuberculosis in the cattle they were feeding, because it made them fatten more quickly"". Some novels take a medical point of view on the disease, with doctors as major characters, and sometimes an intense use of medical language and procedure. For example, in A. J. Cronin's best-known novel, ""The Citadel"" (1937), made into ""a 1938 film of the same name"" by King Vidor, the idealistic protagonist, Dr. Andrew Manson, is dedicated to treating Welsh miners suffering from tuberculosis. He later assists a"
"less."" The Revolt of Aphrodite The Revolt of Aphrodite consists of two novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published in 1968 and 1970. The individual volumes, ""Tunc"" and ""Nunquam"", were less successful than his earlier The Alexandria Quartet, in part because they deviate significantly from his earlier style and because they approach more openly political and ideological problems. Critical responses to the work has varied. Several contemporary critics dismissed Durrell's works at the time, but current scholarship is examining the many ways in which ""The Revolt of Aphrodite"" fits into a genre of dystopic fiction. The two novels are: The"
"Blessed Julian of Norwich, a character in the novel, who is considered one of England's greatest mystics and whose ""Revelations of Divine Love"" was the first book written in English by a woman. ""Katherine"" is also considered one of the greatest examples of a historical-fiction love story ever written. In a poll conducted in the 1990s by ""Ladies' Home Journal"", the novel ranked among the top-ten all-time best love stories. Weir was inspired by ""Katherine"" to become an author of historical fiction, and the novel would also later inspire her non-fiction study, """" (2008) (U.S. title, ""Mistress of the Monarchy,"
"was a contemporary of the writer Christina Stead, who challenged Moorhead to write a book without male characters. As a result, Moorhead wrote her 1987 book ""Remember the Tarantella"". The lesbian fictional novel has a lead character whose name begins with ""I"" and the other 25 female characters' names begin with a different letter of the alphabet. Among her other works are the novels ""A Handwritten Modern Classic"" (1985), ""Quilt"" (1985), ""Still Murder"" (1991/2002), ""Darkness More Visible"" (2000) and the poetry collection ""My Voice"" (2006), and the plays ""Curtain Raiser"", ""Horses"" and ""It Might As Well Be Loneliness"". ""Remember the"
"""Romola"" (1863), E. R. Eddison's ""A Fish Dinner in Memison"" (1941), Irving Stone's ""The Agony and the Ecstasy"" (1961), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's ""The Palace"" (1978), Michael Ondaatje's ""The English Patient – part two"" 1992, Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley's ""If at Faust You Don't Succeed"" (1993), Timothy Findley's ""Pilgrim"" (1999), Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason's ""Rule of Four"" (2004), the novel ""I, Mona Lisa"" by Jeanne Kalogridis (2006), the Showtime series ""The Borgias"", The Sky (Italy) and Netflix (North America) series ""Borgia"", and ""The Botticelli Affair"" by Traci L. Slatton (2013). Other references in popular culture include these: Bonfire of"
"The Revolt of Aphrodite The Revolt of Aphrodite consists of two novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published in 1968 and 1970. The individual volumes, ""Tunc"" and ""Nunquam"", were less successful than his earlier The Alexandria Quartet, in part because they deviate significantly from his earlier style and because they approach more openly political and ideological problems. Critical responses to the work has varied. Several contemporary critics dismissed Durrell's works at the time, but current scholarship is examining the many ways in which ""The Revolt of Aphrodite"" fits into a genre of dystopic fiction. The two novels are: The protagonist,"
"Carroll's ""Alice in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass"", entitled ""Clara in Blunderland"" and ""Lost in Blunderland"". These novels deal with British frustration and anger about the Boer War and with Britain's political leadership at the time. By 1916, dismayed by the attacks being made on Lord Haldane by Leopold Maxse in the ""National Review"", he began to question the government's domestic policy. In 1917, he publicly defended the rights of pacifists and conscientious objectors to oppose the war. He later wrote his best known work under the pseudonym of ""A Gentleman with a Duster"", in which various anomalies and injustices"
"books into his Gnostic quincunx, one longs for either amnesia or the stake. Memory - 'a dog on your back gnawing at your eyeballs' - is Mr. Durrell's real subject, but so far, sad to report, Proust has nothing to worry about."" Constance (novel) Constance, or ""Solitary Practices"" (1982) is the central volume of the five novels of Lawrence Durrell's ""The Avignon Quintet,"" published from 1974 to 1985. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1982. Involving some of the characters from the preceding ""Livia,"" the novel also introduces new ones. It is set before and during World War"
"19th century. There were 18th century and earlier precursors that have nautical settings, but few are as richly developed as subsequent works in this genre. The genre has evolved to include notable literary works like Herman Melville's ""Moby Dick"" (1851), Joseph Conrad's ""Lord Jim"" (1899–1900), popular fiction like C.S. Forester's Hornblower series (1937–67), and works by authors that straddle the divide between popular and literary fiction, like Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (1970–2004). Because of the historical dominance of nautical culture by men, they are usually the central characters, except for works that feature ships carrying women passengers. For this reason,"
"characters, he also tended to depict a more middle class society than Dickens did. He is best known for his novel ""Vanity Fair"" (1848), subtitled ""A Novel without a Hero"", which is an example of a form popular in Victorian literature: a historical novel in which recent history is depicted. Anne, Charlotte and Emily Brontë produced notable works of the period, although these were not immediately appreciated by Victorian critics. ""Wuthering Heights"" (1847), Emily's only work, is an example of Gothic Romanticism from a woman's point of view, which examines class, myth, and gender. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), by her sister"
"His most famous novel is """" (1826), the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy. ""The Last of the Mohicans"" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is perhaps the most famous 19th-century American historical novel. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. In French"
"been on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, the year that the American writer John Steinbeck was selected. The Avignon Quintet The Avignon Quintet is a five-volume series of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1974 and 1985. The novels are metafictional. He uses developments in experimental fiction that followed his ""The Alexandria Quartet"" (1957-1960). The action of the novels is set before and during World War II, largely in France, Egypt, and Switzerland. The novels feature multiple and contradictory narrators, often with each purporting to have written the others as characters in a"
"historical novels – ""The Junkers"" (1968), ""Polonaise"" (1976), ""The Free Frenchman"" (1986), are set in Continental Europe around World War II; and ""Alice in Exile"" (2001) in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution . Read’s contemporaneous novels – ""A Married Man"" (1979), ""A Season in the West"" (1988), and ""The Misogynist"" (2010) - are ironic critiques of the manners and morals of the English upper-middle classes. There are elements of the thriller in ""The Villa Golitsyn"" (1981), ""On the Third Day"" (1990), ""A Patriot in Berlin"" (1995), ""Knights of the Cross"" (1997) and ""The Death of a Pope"""
"of the Firm, Julian. The novel ends with the burning of the Firm's contracts, but no one knows if this will cause any change. The novels are densely allusive and reflect the political tensions of the May 1968 general strike in Paris. They also address the same theme of multiplicity and contingency Durrell developed in The Alexandria Quartet, often in a way that shows Durrell's interest in Nietzsche: 'Haven't you noticed Charlock that most things in life happen just outside one's range of vision? One has to see them out of the corner of one's eye. And any one thing"
"since ""Monsieur."" (She is said to be a fictional creation of author Aubrey Blanford, also introduced in the first novel as a character). She begins an affair with Constance. Critic Graham Hough of the ""London Review of Books"" wrote about the need to read all the novels in this series. But he also wrote, ""As it happened, I read them in the wrong order, but such is the vitality and attack of Durrell’s writing that it hardly mattered. Enter them anywhere and one is sucked into the stream."" Sebastian (Durrell novel) Sebastian, or ""Ruling Passions"" (1982), is the fourth volume"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"which are 'fiction.' The novel was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974. The novel draws extensively on Gnosticism, and this system of belief recurs as a plot element throughout the ""Quintet."" Durrell had an interest in Gnosticism from the early 1940s and had studied Gnostic texts. According to critics James Gifford and Stephen Osadetz, for ""Monsieur,"" Durrell drew from Serge Hutin's ""Les Gnostiques,"" as he had marked numerous passages in his copy, as well as contemporary newspaper reports he held of a Slovenian suicide cult. (These materials are held at the Bibliotheque Lawrence Durrell, Université Paris X,"
"Durrell replied that he had never met Wyndham Lewis. The Black Book (Durrell novel) The Black Book is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press. The story is set with two competing narrators: Lawrence Lucifer on Corfu, in Greece, and Death Gregory in London. Faber and Faber offered to publish the novel in an expurgated edition, but on the advice of Henry Miller, Durrell declined. It was published in the Villa Seurat Series along with Henry Miller's ""Max and the White Phagocytes"" and Anaïs Nin's ""Winter of Artifice"". Although published in 1938, Durrell wrote the"
"concise chapters, the novel was a critical success in Canada and the United States. It was a finalist for several literary prizes, including the Ferro-Grumley Award in the U. S., and won the ReLit Award in the novel category for 2004. It was optioned for film in 2006 by Amaze Films and Television. Still Life with June Still Life With June is the second novel by Canadian author Darren Greer, first published in 2004. It tells the story of an unsuccessful writer, Cameron Dodds, who works at a Salvation Army drug and alcohol treatment centre in an unnamed North American"
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"Rusty, and Wilson. Darren DeFrain is the author of two books of fiction. His novel ""The Salt Palace"" (2005) was nominated for several best-of-the-year lists including ""The Kansas City Star"". This heavily footnoted, postmodern work, sometimes described as a cult novel, examines the histories of the LDS church, the state of Utah, and the Utah Jazz basketball franchise against the story of Brian Peterson and a one-armed hitchhiker as they attempt a dangerous series of road games on their way from Michigan to Utah. DeFrain’s collection of short fiction, ""Inside & Out: Stories"", debuted in 2009 and was praised by"