Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu (Greece)

DURRELL, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 0571057586 / ISBN 13: 9780571057580

Published by Faber and Faber., 1978

About this Item

As photographed; covers a little marked and creased at corners; internally clean and unmarked throughout; 140pp. incl. index.

Seller Inventory # 6117

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu (Greece)
• Publisher: Faber and Faber.
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571057586
• ISBN 13: 9780571057580
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.369 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Exploration & Travel
  • English writing

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Synopsis

Corners of the worn covers creased, page edges tanned. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

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.