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Author(s): Durrell, Lawrence
Reader(s): Anthony, Nigel
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA304012
Barcode: 0730099004022
Release Date: 04/1995
DURRELL, L.: Justine (Abridged)
Justine is the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, four interlinked novels set in the sensuous, hot environment of Alexandria just before the Second World War. Within this polyglot setting of richly idiosyncratic characters is Justine, wild and intense, wife to the wealthy business man Nessim, a mari complaisant. Her emotional and sexual wildness fuels a highly-charged atmosphere which, caught famously by Durrell’s poetic language, made Justine (1957), and the three novels that complete the Quartet—Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960) both a critical and a popular success.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Durrell, Lawrence - Author
Anthony, Nigel (Reader)
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1 | 'I have escaped to this island' | 04:56 |
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2 | Melissa - dusted by the pollen of kisses | 05:15 |
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3 | Pale, slender, phthisic | 06:11 |
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4 | Georges-Gaston Pombal | 05:09 |
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5 | Rats, ticks, street noises - and Justine | 04:53 |
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6 | 'Prince' Nessim | 08:25 |
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7 | Capodistria 'more a goblin than a man' | 07:17 |
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8 | The anguish of Justine | 04:17 |
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9 | On the beach | 08:46 |
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10 | Pursewarden - and Melissa | 09:06 |
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11 | The diaries of Justine | 05:54 |
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12 | The pages of Moeurs | 09:10 |
Anthony, Nigel (Reader)
Disc 2
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1 | From another memory | 08:23 |
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2 | Vertiginous uncertainty | 10:27 |
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3 | Balthazar - a key of the city | 10:27 |
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4 | In a town of sects and gospels - the Cabal | 06:43 |
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5 | A dying rival | 07:23 |
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6 | The tenebrous peninsula | 10:02 |
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7 | Lieutenant Commander Scobie | 05:59 |
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8 | Clea, the gentle, lovable, unknowable | 05:17 |
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9 | Omens, warnings, suspicions | 07:45 |
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10 | Scobie's promotion | 06:55 |
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Disc 3
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1 | Internal struggles | 11:04 |
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2 | The boustrophedon of espionage | 08:10 |
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3 | The great cycle of historical dreams | 02:52 |
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4 | The yearly shoot on Lake Mareotis | 06:11 |
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5 | In Nessim's car | 05:46 |
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6 | Preparations for the shoot | 05:55 |
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7 | Premonitions of the dawn | 08:18 |
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8 | Absence and lesions | 11:44 |
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9 | Recovering memories | 08:11 |
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10 | A different Justine | 10:07 |
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Total Playing Time: 03:56:58