Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel

Durrell, Lawrence

ISBN 10: 1569247226 / ISBN 13: 9781569247228

Published by Da Capo Press, 1997

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR006651558

Synopsis:

Durrell's scenery-describing essays and sketches of Corfu, South America, Cyprus, and Yugoslavia are accompanied by his letters from the years he lived abroad

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good