New Directions, 1969. — 397 p. — ISBN: 0811225453 (ISBN13: 9780811225458) In 1958, when Henry Miller was elected to membership in the American Institute of Arts and Letters, the citation described him as: "The veteran author of many books whose originality and richness of technique are matched by the variety and daring of his subject matter. His boldness of approach and intense...
Open Road Iconic EBooks, 2012. — 884 p. Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine(1957) Balthazar(1958) Mountolive(1958) Clea(1960). Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 96 p. — ASIN B0085IN70E Eleven charming, delicate sketches of diplomatic life in service of the crown After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over old times. His memory is long, and every old embarrassment still rankles—no matter how...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 94 p. — ASIN B07B6BCB6C Based on Lawrence Durrell’s own experience in the diplomatic corps, Antrobus’s cutting observation is drawn from the strange and humorous truth. Few are those with a better sense of place than Durrell, and even fewer with wit to match.
Open Road, 2012. — 380 p. — ASIN B0085IMWZ0 While Cyprus is often touted as a tourist destination, the origins of the prolonged war between the island's Greek and the Turkish communities are less well known. In Bitter Lemons of Cyprus--first published in 1957--Lawrence Durrell blends the story of beginning a new life in this beautiful place with an account of the conflict's...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 364 p. — ISBN: 9781453261620. During WWII Durrell served as a press attache to the British Embassy. After a life spent in various locales, he moved to Cypress as a private individual, settling in the Greek village of Bellapaix. He wrote this memoir as a tribute to the Cypriot peasantry and the island landscape. Durrell got to know the people of the...
Open Road, 2012. — 56 p. — ASIN B0085IMZIE A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century’s most mesmerizing speakers Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and mosquito swarms Durrell documented so tenderly in Prospero’s Cell, was no more. In the first of...
Faber & Faber, 1985. — 350 p. — ISBN: 057113680X (ISBN13: 9780571136803) This is a definitive edition of the collected poems of the author of 'The Alexandria Quartet' and 'The Avignon Quintet'. The volume is charged with Durrell's response to the 'spirit of place', which is one of his exceptional gifts as a writer.
University of Alberta Press, 2015. — 300 p. — ISBN: 1772120510 (ISBN13: 9781772120516) "This collection has a straightforward ambition: to redirect the interpretive perspective that readers bring to Lawrence Durrell's literary works by returning their attention to his short prose." - From the Introduction Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied...
Open Road Integrated Media, 2012. — 306 p. — ASIN B07B6BG8G9 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 Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Israel. But the course of history is uncertain, and Israel’s territorial enemies...
Open Road, 2012. — 142 p. — ASIN B0085IN5TW Lawrence Durrell composed Propero's Cell as if it were a journal or diary of a year and a half on the island of Corfu, and he prefaced his statement of poetic intent by a casual comment, "I am making no attempt to control all this material." Of course he really is, for this is a carefully plotted and thought-out reminiscence that covers...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 312 p. — ASIN B07B6CGSTC Although Durrell spent much of his life beside the Mediterranean, he wrote relatively little about Italy; it was always somewhere that he was passing through on the way to somewhere else. Sicilian Carousel is his only piece of extended writing on the country and, naturally enough for the islomaniac Durrell, it focuses on one of...
Lawrence Durrell's series of four novels set in Alexandria, Egypt during the 1940s. The lush and sensuous series consists of Justine (1957) Balthazar (1958) Mountolive (1958) Clea (1960). Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive use varied viewpoints to relate a series of events in Alexandria before World War II. In Clea, the story continues into the years during the war. One L.G. Darley...
Open Road, 2012. — 1380 p. — ASIN B0085IMY6W An omnibus edition of the five novels published by Durrell in a kaleidoscopic sequence between 1974 and 1985. The books are set mainly in Avignon and the ancient kingdom of Provence, though significant episodes in the quintet are set in the Egyptian desert, Venice, Paris, Vienna and Geneva.
Open Road, 2012. — 243 p. — ASIN B0085IMYEY Durrell's third work, the original angry young novel, was first published by his good friend and long-time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short-lived Villa Seurat imprint of the Paris-based Obelisk Press. Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel, no work better captures the anguish...
Open Road, 2012. — 256 p. — ASIN B0085IMXZE This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero's Cell, and a decade before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers come ashore from a cruise ship to explore the island and in particular...
Faber & Faber, 2002. — 332 p. —ISBN: 0571214266 (ISBN13: 9780571214266) As every reader of Durrell knows, his writing is steeped in the living experience of the Mediterranean, and especially the islands of Greece. This captivating and highly unusual text, originally conceived as a picture book and now reset in paperback format, weaves together evocative descriptions, history...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 242 p. — ASIN B07B69G242 A scientist discovers that his famous invention leads to a dangerous outcome Felix Charlock's scientific genius is unrivaled--and so is his very special invention. So special, in fact, that a shadowy and enigmatic international firm, called Merlin, recruits Felix and marries him into the family. He is betrothed to the erratic...
Open Road Media, 2012. — 270 p. — ASIN B0085IMYNA The ominous and compelling sequel to Durrell’s Tunc finds gifted inventor Felix Charlock called upon by the sinister international firm, Merlin, to apply his scientific prowess to a seemingly impossible project. He must literally reinvent his lost lover, Iolanthe, in the form of a living, breathing replica. Merlin’s dark project...
Faber & Faber Fiction, 2012. — 317 p. — ASIN B0080230ZM The first one-volume paperback of two novels, "Tunc" and "Nunquam", previously available singly, and as a one-volume hardback. The story is about a brilliant young inventor working for an all-powerful international company called Merlin, who creates a perfect robot facsimile of a beautiful woman.
Open Road Media, 2012. — 136 p. — ASIN B0085IN984 Methuen, a seasoned survivor of countless spy missions thrust upon him by the Old Etonians running the Awkward Shop (as the British Secret Service was called), feels he needs a respite from it all. He is looking forward to some trout fishing in Scotland. But when his superior, Dombey, explains that something strange is afoot in the...
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