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The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

Faber and Faber, 2005

8 reviews
Lawrence durrell

Pocket, 1978

no title
This series so far - - "The Alexandria Quartet" - - has been one of the most interesting and wonderful things I have ever read. Memorable in every way. To be savored and remembered. Just simply a dazzling accomplishment by Durrell. "Mountolive" is written in 3rd person, unlike the first two, and it explores more of the motives and facts of the same people in the same time period - yet ...

Clea

6 reviews
Lawrence durrell

Pocket, 1978

Art and love, intertwined
Durrell further explores not only another love for Darley, but what art is and what it ought to be. Of course, descriptions are lush. One can almost hear hear the music of the closing festival and the beating of its drums. Clea and Darley's relationship is embroidered over a wartime background. Durrell uses their beautiful private island experiences to echo and foreshadow the rise and fall ...

Prospero's Cell: A Guide To The Landscape And Manners of The Island Of Corfu

2 reviews
Lawrence Durrell

Axios Press, 2008

Bright shards in a wine-dark sea
The setting for Shakespeare's "Tempest" is the Greek island of Corfu, argues one of the characters in this book, expounding on a deeply held belief of its author. The 'presiding genius' of Corfu, or as it was once called, Corcyra, is none other than Zeus Pantocrator. For the readers of his island books, the genius of place is Lawrence Durrell. According to the introduction by Carol Peirce ...

Justine

33 reviews
Lawrence durrell

Pocket, 1981

Intoxication
Half-way through this book, I must confess, I was about to put it aside as hopelessly esoteric and self-indulgent. But the last 100 pages began to take a different character, and by the time I came to the great duck hunt (an almost Tolstoyan set piece that contains the main action of the novel), I couldn't put it down. And I found myself so moved by the brief final section, which bids a temporary ...

BALTHAZAR (Alexandria Quartet)

8 reviews
Lawrence durrell

Pocket, 1981

Alexandria again - and no answers despite new clues...
"Balthazar" is the second of the sibling tomes of Lawrence Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet". The novel allows the reader to dive again deep into Alexandrian life and see everything what happens already in "Justine" from a different angle. Darley, the narrator, still living in seclusion on the remote Greek Island, has sent the story (i.e. Justine) to one of the Alexandrian friends, Balthazar, the ...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

1 review
D. H. Lawrence

Bantam Books, 1968

Beautiful, if not slightly Misogynistic.
Sexual enlightenment and satisfaction is the core of this novel and that only through a sexual revolution can humans know what it means to be human and to truly live. The tale of the lonely women, undefined in her sexual idenity while craving what she does not understand and thus somewhat dirty, is not usually something I go for. Yet, while Lawrence renders Lady Connie Chatterly as a somewhat ...

The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

2 reviews
Lawrence Durrell

Da Capo Press, 2004

Compared to most travel writing, should be 6 stars
The Lawrence Durrell Reader is a compendium of his best travel writing. All the entries concern the Mediterranean World and particularly its islands--Corfu, Rhodes, Cyprus and Sicily, with Provence and Delphi thrown in for continental balance. The collection celebrates what Durrell liked to call "Spirit of Place." It may seem occasionally dated as we move into the final decadance of condominium ...

REFLECTIONS ON A MARINE VENUS

1 review
LAWRENCE DURRELL

FABER AND FABER, 1943

Dazzling, many-layered vision of the Greek Islands
The `marine Venus' of the title is a statue which was found by sailors in their nets at the bottom of Rhodes harbor and which much appealed to Durrell, who thought of her as the 'presiding genius' of the place. He began this book while assigned to Rhodes as an information officer in 1945, and finally finished it in Belgrade in 1952 while working as a press attaché for the British Embassy. Before ...

Prospero's Cell & Reflections on a Marine Venus
Lawrence Durrell

E.P. Dutton, 1962

Two marvelous travel books about the Greek islands of Corfu and Rhodes {Illustrated}

The Book of the It
Georg Walther Groddeck

International Universities Press, 1976

The Book Of The It (1923) is a key text in the history of psychoanalytical thought and the investigation of human sexual compulsion. Georg Groddeck posits the "It" as the unconscious force that drives human behavior and underpins its poles of attraction and revulsion, standing as the root source of physical disease. It was this notion that Freud would modify into his concept of the Id, a primal calculus of sex and violence. Georg Groddeck ...

The Black Book

4 reviews
Lawrence Durrell

Olympia Press, 2008

One of my favorite books. Gorgeous use of language.
This is a magnificent book. The legend around it is that Durrell sent the manuscript for this to Henry Miller, in Paris, and asked that he read it and then toss it in the Seine... Miller read it, and obviously did not cast it away, instead helped to have it published... TS Eliot was one of the guys responsible for getting this out. So goes the name dropping... Now, I'm not a fan of Miller's ...

The Alexandria Quartet
Lawrence Durrell

Faber and Faber, 2005

ESPRIT DE CORPS & STIFF UPPER LIP
Lawrence Durrell

Dutton, 1961

Send-up stories about diplomatic life by the author of Alexandria Quartet. With Vasiliu's cartoon illusts.

The Greek Islands: 2 (A Studio book)

1 review
Lawrence Durrell

Studio, 1978

HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY ARE STILL ALIVE AND WELL
Lawrence Durrell is best known as a novelist, in particular for the four novels that make up his ALEXANDRIA QUARTET. In addition, he is both a poet and a travel writer. THE GREEK ISLANDS, though not one of his better known works, is much more than an ordinary travel guide. As he says, "the modern tourist is already well provided for in that respect." How, then, would you describe this book? ...

Spirit of Place

2 reviews
Lawrence Durrell

Da Capo Press, 1997

A Durrell treasure chest
Here we have a marvelous collection of short works by Lawrence Durrell that should satisfy both beginners and older Durrell addicts. We all know that, as the most brilliant member of a brilliant family, LD had an enviably interesting life, living all over the globe for more or less long periods and reflecting deeply on what he observed. This volume shows that he also had a fascinating inner life ...

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