Balthazar The Alexandria Quartet, Book 2 - Lawrence Durrell

Category: Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Classics Literatue

Written by Lawrence Durrell
Read by Nicholas Boulton
Format: MP3
Unabridged

“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.

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-03-21