Pope Joan

Literature & Fiction

DURRELL, LAWRENCE

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

The British author's adventures on and impressions of the Greek island of Corfu between 1938 and 1941 are recorded

Prospero's Cell

This richly sensuous account of Durrell's years in the British civil service takes place after the end of World War II and just before the island of Rhodes is handed back to Greece. His evocative descriptions range from the scent of citrus groves and flowers of every form and color to the rhythm of the sea (alternately savage and soothing) and the play of light over the island as the sun moves across the sky. He intermingles these pleasant accounts with the grim reality of having to rebuild a nation and an island after Nazi cruelty has left it a shambles. "Penetrating description, intense imagery, high and persistent color...it is a presentation which sparkles with an intense brilliance and fire." -- Christian Science Monitor

Reflections Marin: Reflections on a Marine Venus

Sicilian Carousel

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 Italy's islands. Sicilian Carousel came relatively late in Durrell's career, and is based around a slightly fictionalized bus tour of the island.

Travel

Europe

While on a Mediterranean cruise, a group of Englishmen are trapped by a landslide on Crete in the labyrinth of of the ancient Minotaur

The Dark Labyrinth

Perfect spine. Clean bright cover with light shelf wear. Small signature on first page. Same day shipping.

Nunquam: A Novel

Set in Yugoslavia during the Cold War, this book is based on the author's experience of working there for the Foreign Office in the 1950s. The book is about a British secret service officer sent to investigate the murder of a colleague and the activities of royalists guerrillas.

White Eagles Over Serbia

Contemporary

Penguin Uk

Drawing upon personal experiences and repeated visits, Durrell explores the landscape, history, mythology, architecture and archaeological heritage of the Greek Islands

The Greek Islands

new, never cracked, but published in 1984 and therefore some normal aging/shelf storage indications

Constance, or Solitary Practices (The Avignon Quintet)

A bizarre love story, set in Avignon during the 1930s, centers around an intentionally reckless young woman who espouses the joys of fascism and consorts with the gypsies and the local whores

Livia or Buried Alive

Literary

Viking Pr

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