Clea (novel)

Clea
First UK edition
AuthorLawrence Durrell
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Alexandria Quartet
PublisherFaber
Publication date
1960
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Paperback and Hardback)
Preceded byMountolive 

Clea, published in 1960, is the fourth volume in The Alexandria Quartet of novels by the British author Lawrence Durrell. Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 1930s and 1940s, the first three volumes tell the same story from different points of view, and Clea relates subsequent events.

Durrell wrote the book in four weeks.[1]

  1. ^ Sink or Skim, by Michael Wood; in the London Review of Books; published January 1, 2009; retrieved July 15, 2018