"Balthazar" 1960 DURRELL, Lawrence

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DURRELL, Lawrence [250] pp. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1960 Fifth Printing 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" Balthazar, published in 1958, is the second volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by B ritish author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, around World War II, the four novels tell essentially the same story from different points of view and come to a conclusion in Clea. Balthazar is the first novel in the series that presents a competing narrator, Balthazar, who writes back to the narrating Darley in his "great interlinear". Show more