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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lawrence DurrellPublisher: Faber & Faber Imprint: Faber & Faber Edition: Main Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.292kg ISBN: 9780571362417ISBN 10: 0571362419 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 01 July 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock ![]() We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews'A magician.' - The Times 'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' - Victoria Hislop 'Charming ... Delightful.' - Sunday Times 'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' - Richard Holmes 'Like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.' - Time 'A magician.' - The Times 'Invades the reader's every sense ... Remarkable.' - Victoria Hislop 'Charming ... Delightful.' - Sunday Times 'Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.' - Richard Holmes 'Like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.' - Time Author InformationLawrence Durrell was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Born in 1912 in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to school in England and later moved to Corfu with his family - a period which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals- later filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - and which he himself described in Prospero's Cell. The first of Durrell's island books, this was followed by Reflections on a Marine Venus on Rhodes; Bitter Lemons, on Cyprus, which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize; and, later, The Greek Islands. Durrell's first major novel, The Black Book, was published in 1938 in Paris, where he befriended Henry Miller and Anais Nin - and it was praised by T. S. Eliot, who published his poetry in 1943. A wartime sojourn in Egypt inspired his bestselling masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet (Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea) which he completed in his new home in Southern France, where in 1974 he began The Avignon Quintet. When he died in 1990, Durrell was one of the most celebrated writers in British history. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |