Lawrence Durrell: 40 books
Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two
Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, and Spirit of Place
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Travel memoirs “as luminous as the Mediterranean air” from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in The Durrells in Corfu (Time).
Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and...
Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One
Blue Thirst, Sicilian Carousel, and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Travel writing “as luminous as the Mediterranean air” from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in PBS’s The Durrells in Corfu (Time).
Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt...
From the Elephant's Back
Collected Essays & Travel Writings
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
“…the proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet.” —Lawrence Durrell Best known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twentieth-century...
by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A collection of travel essays from the bestselling author whose writing sparkles with “prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves” (Time).
Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and...
by Lawrence Durrell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic career. In his detailed and generous...
Blue Thirst
Tales of Life Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
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...
Prospero's Cell
A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
From a member of the real-life family portrayed in The Durrells in Corfu, this memoir of the idyllic Greek island is “among the best books ever written” (The New York Times).
Before Lawrence Durrell became a renowned novelist, poet, and travel writer, he spent four youthful years on Corfu,...
Judith: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
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,...
A Smile in the Mind's Eye
An Adventure into Zen Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
The “virtuoso” author’s memoir of his spiritual journey with famed Taoist philosopher Jolan Chang (The New York Times).
Beginning with their first meeting over lunch at Lawrence Durrell’s Provencal home, Durrell and Jolan Chang—renowned Taoist philosopher and expert on Eastern...
Reflections on a Marine Venus
A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
After World War II, an Englishman seeks peace on an ancient Greek island in this “remarkable” travel memoir (The New York Times).
Islomania is a disease not yet classified by Western science, but to those afflicted its symptoms are all too recognizable. Men like Lawrence Durrell are...
Sicilian Carousel
Adventures on an Italian Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
A moving account of friendship and discovery on the island of Sicily from the acclaimed travel writer and bestselling author of The Alexandria Quartet.
Despite decades spent writing poetic evocations of the timeless pleasures of life in the Mediterranean, Lawrence Durrell had never set foot...
Diplomatic Adventures
Esprit de Corps, Stiff Upper Lip, and Sauve Qui Peut
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The complete Antrobus stories of diplomatic mischief comprise “a rewarding cocktail based on two parts Wodehouse and half a part of H. H. Munro” (The New York Times).
Versatile British novelist, travel writer, and member of the real-life family portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production,...
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
Life on a Mediterranean Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet: “A superlative piece of . . . writing . . . rooted in the Mediterranean scene” (Time).
In 1953, as the British Empire relaxes its grip upon the world, the island of Cyprus bucks for independence. Some...
White Eagles Over Serbia
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
“Proof that Durrell can master any genre . . . [a] quiet but suspenseful spy thriller . . . with some similarities to Ian Fleming’s James Bond” (Early Bird Books).
After some especially taxing missions, seasoned secret agent Methuen wants nothing more than to take a long, relaxing...