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Imagine if P.G. Wodehouse was a diplomat: Durrells hilarious foreign office sketches are sophisticated funny, but wonderful, and bonkers (Joanna Trollope)A rewarding cocktail based on two parts Wodehouse and one part Saki ... So much fun.New York TimesWhatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps, with its protocol and formalities and a field for humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories. John BetjemanAfter a lifetime serving that most delightfully British of institutions, the Foreign Office, Antrobus cant resist musing over old times in Vulgaria at his London club - or should that be cringing ... His memories of farcical gaffes and comic diplomatic misadventures climax in a dramatic sword fight over a gorgeous new French ambassadress - just one portrait of English etiquette, empire, and eccentricity Celebrated British novelist, travel writer, and member of the real-life family portrayed in The Durrells in Corfu, Lawrence Durrell experienced the absurdities of mid-century diplomacy firsthand. His charming jeu desprit about the diplomatic corps is classic satire: but be warned: theres a point where laughter can become painful ...Antrobus is a delight to listen to, and his stories are wonderfully funny.AtlanticMy goodness it is funny.The Daily Telegraph

Es la crónica de un viaje del autor a la selva del Camerún llevado a cabo con el fin de reunir animales de las especies más características de esa región. La expedición le proporcionó la ocasión de entrar en contacto con una de las pocas partes del continente que seguia mas o menos como estaba cuando se descubrio Africa por primera vez.

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 Durrells poetic career. In his detailed and generous introduction, Porter makes the case for A Private Country as one of the most accomplished debut collections of the twentieth century, and traces Durrells preoccupations and poetic personality within the wider scene. The selection of poems makes its own strong case for the continuing power and originality of this attractive, metropolitan and wholly individual body of work.

The most exhilarating surge of language, style and sordid English manners [in] literature.DBC Pierre A wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza ... Richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny ... Above all, stylistically and verbally inventive. Observer .Death Gregory has disappeared, abandoning his diaries in a seedy London hotel. Discovered by Lawrence Lucifer, they depict a clique of intellectuals living a life of squalid debauchery: struggling writers and artists consumed by loves, lusts, and a quest for innovation. But as they satisfy violent appetites of the flesh - and mind - their descent into darkness accelerates ... Written when he was only 24, Lawrence Durrell described his controversial third novel as a two-fisted attack on literature by an angry young man of the thirties in which he first heard the sound of my own voice. First published in Paris in 1938, it was banned in Britain for nearly four decades due to its obscenity (influenced by Durrells friend Henry Miller). Vivid, surrealist, and haunting, The Black Bookpeers into the recesses of our souls: and establishes Durrell as a trailblazing stylist.Stygian prose ... Words like stones, throwing, rockerying, mossing, churning, sharpening, bloodsucking, melting, and a hard firewater flows and rolls through them.Dylan ThomasGenuine art ... Lavishly displays Durrells gift of language ... Verbal brilliance. New York Times The first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction. T.S. EliotDurrells first major work ... Its showy brilliance is certainly that of a born writer ... Savage and obscene.GuardianBrilliantly strange ... It will astonish. Independent on Sunday

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.Incandescent.André AcimanInvades the readers every sense ... Remarkable. Victoria Hislop Nobody knows the Greek islands like Durrell.New York TimesWhite-washed houses drenched in pink bougainvillea; dazzling seascapes and rugged coastlines; colourful harbours in quaint fishing villages; shady olive and cypress groves; terraces bathed in the Aegean sun ... The Greek islands conjure up a treasure-chest of images - but nobody brings them to life as vividly as the legendary travel writer Lawrence Durrell. It was during his youth in Corfu - which his brother Gerald fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals, later filmed as The Durrells In Corfu - that his love affair with the Mediterranean began. Now, in this glorious tour of the Greek islands, he weaves evocative descriptions of these idyllic landscapes with insights into their ancient history, and shares luminous personal memories of his time in the local communities. No traveller to Greece or admirer of Durrells magic should miss it.Masterly ... Casts a spell.Jan MorrisOur last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.Richard HolmesLike long letters from a civilized and very funny friend - the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves.Time

Lose yourself in the thrilling political intrigue and tangled love affairs of wartime Egypt, in Durrells epic modern classic. Every interpretation of reality is based upon a unique position ...As the threat of war looms over Alexandria, an exiled Anglo-Irish schoolteacher unravels his erotic obsession with two women: Melissa, a dancer, and Justine, a glamorous Egyptian wife. During sessions with his psychiatrist, Balthazar, their intricate love affair is cast in a radical, sinister new light, illuminating a mysterious plot connected to a recent murder - but Lawrence Durrells kaleidoscopic storytelling means that nothing is ever as it seems ... Legendary ... Casts a spell ... A fine storyteller. Reader, watch out!Jan Morris, GuardianA brave and brazen work ... Lush and grandiose.IndependentOne of the very best novelists of our time ... [such] beauty.New York Times Book ReviewVOLUME TWO OF LAWRENCE DURRELLS ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrells sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaurs labyrinth on Crete ... Spellbinding ... A fine storyteller.GuardianSuperb ... Quite simply a lovely work of art. New York TimesA group of English tourists have come ashore from their cruise ship to explore the island of Crete. This motley crew - including a painter, spiritualist, spinster, soldier, convalescent, and elderly couple - are holidaying to seek respite from a broken post-war world. But their journey reaches a disastrous climax when they visit a cave reputed to be the legendary labyrinth of the minotaur, and become trapped within ...Set in the glorious Mediterranean landscapes which Lawrence Durrell so famously evoked in his travel writing and novels, The Dark Labyrinth is a morality tale unlike any other. Artfully blending horror and humour, comedy and tragedy, witty allegory and profound philosophy, it is a sublime novel, as refreshing today as it was decades ago. Superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also [the] casual wit and the brilliance of comment.Observer

Imagine if P.G.Wodehouse was a diplomat: Durrells hilarious foreign office sketches are sophisticated funny, but wonderful, and bonkers (Joanna Trollope)A rewarding cocktail based on two parts Wodehouse and one part Saki ... So much fun.New York TimesWhatever wars there may be and whatever crises, there will still, please heaven, be the diplomatic corps, with its protocol and formalities and a field for humour which I have never seen better used than in these stories. John BetjemanAfter a lifetime serving that most delightfully British of institutions, the Foreign Office, Antrobus cant resist musing over old times in Vulgaria at his London club - or should that be cringing ... His memories of farcical gaffes and comic diplomatic misadventures star a mad inventor, a tragic cavalry officer, foreign ambassadors, embassy bachelors, a mischievous chef plotting to bring down the empire with garlic ... Celebrated British novelist, travel writer, and member of the real-life family portrayed in The Durrells in Corfu, Lawrence Durrell experienced the absurdities of mid-century diplomacy firsthand. Lampooning English etiquette, empire, and eccentricity, his charming jeu desprit about the diplomatic corps is classic satire: but be warned: theres a point where laughter can become painful ...Antrobus is a delight to listen to, and his stories are wonderfully funny.AtlanticMy goodness it is funny.The Daily Telegraph

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.In its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.New York TimesIn his youth, before he became a celebrated writer and poet, Lawrence Durrell spent four transformative years on the island jewel of Corfu, fascinated by the idyllic natural beauty and blood-stained ancient history within its rocky shores.While his brother Gerald collected animals as a budding naturalist - later fictionalised in My Family and Other Animals and filmed as The Durrells in Corfu - Lawrence fished, drank and befriended the local villagers.After World War II catapulted him back into a turmoiled world, Durrell never forgot the wonders of Corfu. Prosperos Cell is his magical evocation of the blazing Aegean landscape, brimming with memories of the places and people that changed him forever.Some writers reinvent their language; others the world. Durrell did both. Andre Aciman Invades the readers every sense ... Remarkable. Victoria Hislop Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.Richard Holmes These days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.Elif ShafakCorfu could not have found a fitter chronicler.Daily TelegraphA charming idyll ... Delightful.Sunday Times

Lose yourself in the definitive collection of glorious travel sketchesby our centurys best loved voyager and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.Depicts the brio of Durrells existence with intoxicating vividness.New York TimesMuch more than just a chronicle of his travels ... Reveals Durrells honesty, outspokenness, warmth, and extreme sensitivity to people and to the beauty of nature ... Unusual and fascinating.Library JournalExcellent, vigorous, exciting, unselfconscious, with a lively, original vocabulary ... Shot through with strength and vitality.TLSFrom the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece, and spent the rest of his life wandering the world. He traveled not to sight-see but to live, and made homes in Egypt, France, Yugoslavia, and Argentina. Each time he landed, he rooted himself deep into the native soil, taking in not just the sights and sounds of his new land, but the essential character of the country. In this definitive collection of glorious letters and essays, Durrell exhibits the power of poetic observation that made his travel writing so extraordinary.

Con la irrupción de un diplomático inglés y de la conspiración dirigida por Justine y Nessim Hosnani, el centro de atención gira en torno a los temas del poder político y sus intrigas, y la galería de personajes de Durrel amplia su fascinante registro. Tapa dura.

Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrells sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaurs labyrinth on Crete ...

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