Justine Author:Lawrence Durrell Part of the Alexandria Quartet. — 7th printing — Cover price: $3.75 — From dust jacket: — Justine is poetry in the form of prose, a perceptive sensoous evoction of a city and its people. Rich in imagery and description, Alexandria emerges in all its color, its vices and teeming in life. Four central characters dominate this story: Justine, th... more »e passionate, tormented Jewess; Melissa, a Greek cabaret dancer; Nessim, the millionaire Coptic financier; and the "I" of the narrative, an Irish schoolmaster. Within the exotic and decadent city these four play out their destinies influenced by Alexandria, symbol of an erotic world.« less