Prospero's cell, and Reflections on a marine Venus
by Lawrence Durrell 
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Lovely recollection of life on Corfu before WW II and a posting in Rhodes immediately after WW II. Landscape, people, festivals described in loving detail with some notes on history. Durrell is also a novelist, best known for the Alexandria Quartet, four novels set in Egypt. His brother Gerald Durrell was a naturalist who wrote memoirs of his family recently made into a PBS program.
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Lawrence Durrell was born on February 27, 1912 in Jullundur, India to British parents. During World War II, he served as a British press officer. His first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, was published in 1935, but was considered a failure. Some of his other works include The Black Book, The Alexandria Quartet, The Avignon Quintet, and Caesar's Vast show more Ghost: A Portrait of Provence. Bitter Lemons won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1959. He died on November 7, 1990 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1945
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- Travel, Nonfiction
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- 949.55 — History & geography History of Europe Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria Greece and the Byzantine Empire German occupation 1941-1945
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- DF901 .C7 .D82 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Greece History of Greece Modern Greece Local history and description Crete
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