Clea. A Novel.

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp, 287, [1]. Publisher's pink cloth, blocked in pine green and stamped in gilt to spine. Grey dustwrapper, printed in black and red (priced 16s net to front flap).

Top and fore-edges lightly dust-soiled and foxed. Dustwrapper sunned to edges and spine, slight loss to tips and backstrip edges, openly torn to upper flap fold.

The final installment in the The Alexandria Quartet sequence, being a chronicle of British expats in pre-World War II Egypt. A Burgess 99 title. No. 70 on The Modern Library's list of The 100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century. In a Prefatory Note to Balthazar, Durrell contended that the tetralogy is 'a word continuum', with the first three vols. recounting the same sequence of events from multiple viewpoints, whilst Clea tracks change over time.

[Thomas & Brigmore A33]