tracks

'I Have Escaped To This Island'
Melissa -- Dusted By The Pollen Of Kisses
Pale, Slender, Phthisic
Georges-Gaston Pombal
Rats, Ticks, Street Noises -- And Justine
'Prince' Nessim
Capodistria 'More A Goblin Than A Man'
The Anguish Of Justine
On The Beach
Pursewarden -- And Melissa
The Diaries Of Justine
The Pages Of 'Moeurs'
From Another Memory
Vertiginous Uncertainty
Balthazar -- A Key Of The City
In A Town Of Sects And Gospels -- The Cabal
A Dying Rival
The Tenebrous Peninsula
Lieutenant Command Scobie
Clea, The Gentle, Lovable, Unknowable
Omens, Warnings, Suspicions
Scobie's Promotion
Internal Struggles
The Boustrophedon Of Espionage
The Great Cycle Of Historical Dreams
The Yearly Shoot On Lake Mareotis
In Nessmi's Car
Preparations For The Shoot
Premonitions Of The Dawn
Absence And Lesions
Recovering Memories
A Different Justine

notes

An abridged reading of the first volume of Lawrence Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet", originally published 1957. Three compact discs in a double-jewel case.

"The music on this CD is taken from the NAXOS and MARCO POLO Catalogues:"

* Ravel / Debussy: String Quartets (8.550249)
* Ravel: Piano Works (8.550254)
* MacDowell: Piano Works (8.223631)

Total Times:

* CD1: 79:30
* CD2: 79:30
* CD3: 78:28

Cover picture: Photo by Rodolphe Hammadi from Alexandrie d'Egypt, les lieux du Quatuor d'Alexandrie (Éditions Eric Koehler) ("Alexandria, Egypt, the places of the Alexandria Quartet").

credits

Abridged By – Elizabeth Bradbury
Cover [Cover Picture: Photo] – Rodolphe Hammadi
Engineer [Speech] – Alan Smyth (3)
Liner Notes – Elizabeth Bradbury
Production Manager [Post Production] – Simon Weir
Read By – Nigel Anthony
Text By – Lawrence Durrell

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