Prospero's Cell: Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu - Hardcover

Durrell, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571048412 ISBN 13: 9780571048410

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1975

Synopsis

Prospero's Cell A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra

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About the Author

Lawrence Durrell was born in 1912 in India. He attended the Jesuit College at Darjeeling and St Edmund's School, Canterbury. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1938. His first collection of poems, A Private Country, was published in 1943, followed by the three Island books: Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, about Rhodes, and Bitter Lemons, his account of life in Cyprus. Durrell's wartime sojourn in Egypt led to his masterpiece, The Alexandria Quartet, which he completed in southern France where he settled permanently in 1957. Between the Quartet and The Avignon Quintet he wrote the two-decker Tunc and Nunquam. His oeuvre includes plays, a book of criticism, translations, travel writing, and humorous stories about the diplomatic corps. Caesar's Vast Ghost, his reflections on the history and culture of Provence, including a late flowering of poems, appeared a few days before his death in Sommières in 1990.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0571048412
• ISBN 13: 9780571048410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English