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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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The Alexandria Quartet
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(1957–60) Four novels, set in Egypt and highly elaborate in texture and style, which established the reputation of Lawrence *Durrell. The separate books – Justine (1957), Balthazar and Mountolive (both 1958), Clea (1960) – describe from differing viewpoints the sexual and political schemes of a group of people in Alexandria in the late 1930s. The observer at the still centre of this turning world, as if in the position of Durrell himself (who was there a few years later), is a schoolteacher by the name of Darley.
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