Literary places in Alexandria

Justine

Lawrence Durrell

The first book of the Alexandria Quartet, in which a schoolteacher looks back on his love for the restless, magnetic Justine, wife of the wealthy Copt Nessim, in the cosmopolitan Alexandria of the years before the Second World War. The city is the true protagonist, Durrell's 'capital of memory': the sweep of the Corniche, the Cecil Hotel on the seafront, the crowded cosmopolitan and Arab quarters, and Lake Mareotis south of the town where a duck shoot ends in death.

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