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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 Durrells in Corfu.Stunning. Andre Aciman Masterly ... Casts a spell.Jan MorrisInvades the readers every sense ... Remarkable.Victoria HislopThese days I am admiring and re-admiring Lawrence Durrell.Elif ShafakOur last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.Richard HolmesExceptional ... Revelatory ... A master.ObserverHe writes as an artist, as well as a poet . Profoundly beautiful.New StatesmanCyprus, 1953. As the island fights for independence from British colonial rule, ancient conflicts between Turkish and Greek Cypriots trouble the glittering Mediterranean waters. Into the brewing political storm enters Lawrence Durrell, yearning for the idyllic island lifestyle of his youth in Corfu.He settles into a dilapidated villa, and with his poets eye for beauty - and passable Greek - vividly captures the moods and atmospheres of island life in a changing world. Whether collecting folklore or wild flowers, describing the brewing revolution or eccentric local characters, Durrell is a magician with words: and the result is not only a classic travel memoir, but an intimate portrait of a community lost forever.WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZEBrilliant ... Never for a moment does Durrell lose the poets touch.New York Times

Lawrence Durrells success as a novelist may have tended to obscure his achievement as a poet and in poetry. It is primarily as a lyrical poet of places that he was acknowledged to excel, but in Collected Poems it will be found that the range of feeling and ideas, of wit and experience, and also of style, is remarkable. The whole volume is charged with Durrells response to the spirit of place, which is one of this exceptional gifts as a writer. They range from affecting and beautiful love poems to skilful, succinct portraits and robust ballads . . . Rich in ideas. -- Alan RossAs a lyrical poet . . . he is the equal of Auden. -- Gavin EwartDurrells poetry compels the highest standard of judgement . . . The effect of reading him is to have ones love of poetry rekindled . . . Genuine life, genuine emotion, genuine art. -- John Wain

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.Full of stories, landscapes, comedy, history, heresies, animals, food, drink, and songs of the Midi.Patrick Leigh Fermor A richly characteristic bouillabaisse by our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean, our old Prospero of the south.Richard Holmes Provence, Southern France. Celebrated writer and poet Lawrence Durrell made the Midi his home for more than thirty years: and in his final book, he shares his most evocative, dazzling memories of life as a local. A seductive blend of travelogue, poets notebook, and intimate autobiography, Durrell guides us through the rich layers of human history that lie beneath the regions legendary landscapes. From stories of magic and mythology infusing the rolling vineyards and vivid lavender fields to tales of Roman conquest, bull-worship, and courtly love beneath the wounded blue skies, Caesars Vast Ghost is a classic memoir to be treasured.Casts a spell ... Masterly.Jan MorrisA virtuoso.New York Times

Lose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the Greek island of Rhodes after World War II by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.A magician ... Durrell enchants.The TimesA lovely book ... Makes people feel happy ... [So] pleasurable.ObserverA poets intoxication with landscape, a humanists appetite for history, and an eye for character worthy of a novelist . He excites a longing to leave for Rhodes at once.Sunday TimesWorld War II is finally over, and after four torturous years serving the Crown in Egypt, Lawerence Durrell seeks peace in the landscapes he has loved ever since his youth in Corfu: Mediterranean islands. He is posted to the Greek island of Rhodes, and from his first dip in the dazzling blue Aegean - which jolts his soul awake for the first time in years - he immerses himself in the rhythms and moods of local life, befriending eccentric villagers and quaffing ouzo as through the war was a distant dream. With his dazzling poets eye and passion for excavating ancient history, Durrell recaptures the mythic Rhodes of legend, of knights and crusades, that lies beneath its war-ravaged surface. It is a place that you will never forget. Our last great garlicky master of the vanishing Mediterranean.Richard Holmes Masterly ... Casts a spell.Jan Morris Incandescent.Andre Aciman Invades the readers every sense ... Remarkable. Victoria Hislop Like 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 classicA master at creating and handling tension ... I was fascinated from the start. Wilbur SmithDavid Mountolive, a young English diplomat, has been obsessed with Egypt ever since a youthful love affair. Returning to Alexandria as British Ambassador just before World War Two, he unravels an intricate political and religious conspiracy - one that connects a web of wildly different characters, including an exiled schoolteacher and glamorous Egyptian couple. Mountolive gradually exposes the sinister underbelly of these tangled relationships, their deceptions and betrayals mirroring the explosive turmoil of the modern Middle East - and the result is Durrells most cinematic masterpiece. Astonishing ... A work of splendid craft and troubling veracity.New York Times Book ReviewA masterpiece ... Dont be fooled by the richness of the prose, the depth of the passions ... Wicked and funny.GuardianDazzlingly exuberant in style and vision, reckless in ambition, wonderfully prolific in invention ... Superb.ObserverVOLUME THREE OF LAWRENCE DURRELLS ALEXANDRIA QUARTET

La franqueza y espontaneidad de estas cartas, la importancia de los temas tratados, el genio de los corresponsales -el joven Durrell en Corfú, Henry Miller en París-, las convierten en un diálogo ver

El tiempo, el escenario, los personajes y los incidentes son los mismos que en Justine, pero el comentario interlineal del doctor Balthazar lo envuelve todo de un misterioso y dramático sentido, arrastrando al lector al centro mismo de la creacion artistica.

Los cuatro volúmenes de Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive y Clea en un magnífico estuche.