Autumn Gleanings: Corfu Memoirs and Poems - Softcover

Theodore Stephanides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 095499373X ISBN 13: 9780954993733

Publisher: Durrell School of Corfu & International Lawrence Durrell Society, 2011

Synopsis

This new book by Theodore Stephanides (1896-1983) consists of his accounts of his meetings with Lawrence Durrell (and other members of the Durrell family) in Corfu, and afterwards in Athens and Egypt, in the period 1935-1944 (these are the "Corfu Memoirs"), together with his final collection of English poems to which he himself gave the title "Autumn Gleanings". The collection of poems and most of the memoirs are published here for the first time. (A few of the memoirs have appeared in Deus Loci, the journal of the International Lawrence Durrell Society.) The book also contains and Editor's Introduction by Richard Pine, explaining how the materials in the book came to light, and "A Brief Biography" of Theodore Stephanides, also by Richard Pine. There is also a "Select Bibliography" of Stephanides' writings; and the book closes with a humorous (and entirely fictional) story by Stephanides, "Bishop's Move", in which Lawrence Durrell is mistaken for a bishop with far-reaching consequences. To quote from the back cover of the book, "Theodore Stephanides was a polymath. He had an international reputation as a scientist (he was a medical doctor, a naturalist and an astronomer), but he was also a poet and a translator. Stephanides was born in India, but came to Corfu with his family as a child, and it was there, many years later that he encountered the Durrell family who moved to Corfu in 1935. Lawrence Durrell, who was to write The Alexandria Quartet, became a close friend of Stephanides and his collaborator, while Gerald Durrell, who was introduced by Stephanides to the beauties and mysteries of the natural world, went on to become one of the most distinguished zoologist of his day. In My Family and Other Animals, Gerald presents a lively portrait of Stephanides."

Edition details

• Publisher: Durrell School of Corfu & International Lawrence Durrell Society
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 095499373X
• ISBN 13: 9780954993733
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Richard Pine, Lindsay Parker, James Gifford, Anthony Hirst