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Lawrence Durrell
Consisting of Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea - The Alexandria Quartet explores the sexual and political intrigues of a group of expatriates in Egypt before and after the Second World…
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Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
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Lose yourself in this dazzling travelogue of the idyllic Greek Islands by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
Rich in invention, psychological truth and sheer entertainment, the five short novels that comprise The Avignon Quintet form one of the key works of an undisputed modern master. ‘Another constellation…
Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell examines heretical elements in Durrell's thought and writings and Foucauldian explorations of his treatments of place and space. It links Lawrence Durrell's…
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Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
Prospero’s Cell is the story of a young man’s escape from a grey, industrialized England to a sunny Greek island. Durrell, later a world famous novelist, had it all: a…
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Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The…
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Isabelle Keller-Privat
Lawrence Durrell's Poetry offers an in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years…
Contributing Authors Include Richard Aldington, Lionel Trilling, Carl Bode And Many Others.
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Richard Pine
In this second volume of his study of the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell Richard Pine examines Durrell’s contribution to the development of the modern novel, concentrating in particular on the…
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Lawrence Durrell: Conversations contains over thirty of the one hundred or more interviews in which Durrell participated during the last thirty-five years of his life. Many of these interviews are…
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The essays in this volume represent multiple perspectives on Lawrence Durrell’s sojourn in the Hellenic diaspora and his art’s connection to the Greek world.
Covers the full range of Durrell’s poetry from A Private Country to Vega
Brewster Chamberlin
A series of chronological entries documenting Lawrence Durrell's life (1912-1990) and writing career, preceded by "Antecedents" (1851-1910), and followed by "Aftermath" (1991-2019), listing the main events connected with his reputation…
C. Ravindran Nambiar
In this study of the influence of Indian metaphysics on Lawrence Durrell’s novels, Professor Nambiar offers a unique milestone in the history of Durrellian criticism.
Anais Nin and Lawrence Durrell, along with their mutual friend Henry Miller, formed a triumvirate they called the three musketeers in Paris during the 1930s. Not only did they support…
A selection of mainly late poems by Lawrence Durrell which were not included in COLLECTED POEMS 1931-1974, but appeared only in prose works and have not been collected before. Poems…
A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction
It is the eve of Britain’s withdrawal from…
A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction This book features an introduction by editor Richard…
When a genius inventor is seduced by a mysterious firm to create a robot, technology may save him - or be his undoing…Lose yourself in this dystopian novel by the…
Lawrence Durrell’s controversial third novel about a debauched group of intellectuals in a London hotel is ‘the most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.’ (DBC…
Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell’s sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaur’s labyrinth on Crete …
The dazzling second volume of The Alexandria Quartet - a deeply disturbing work of gorgeous surfaces and endless deceptions.
The intrigues of Justine and Balthazar multiply and deepen in this third volume of The Alexandria Quartet .
In the final volume of the Alexandrian Quartet , Darley returns to Alexandria now caught by war-fever. The conflagration has its effect on his circle - on Nessim and Justine…
Lose yourself in this classic 1950s Cold War spy thriller tracking a British secret agent in Communist Serbia by the celebrated author of The Alexandria Quartet.
Discover the timeless beauty of Lawrence Durrell's poetry in this elegant collection. From love and loss to the mysteries of the universe, Durrell's verse captures the essence of the human…
Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War IIby the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
Lose yourself in this vivid travelogue evoking the historic Mediterranean island of Sicily by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
This volume presents a number of original essays on aspects of Lawrence Durrell which have not previously been discussed. Durrell (1912-1990) was the ground-breaking author of The Alexandria Quartet, Tunc-Nunquam…
The essays in On Miracle Ground represent a collaborative attempt to assess the place of Lawrence Durrell in twentieth-century fiction.
