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  • The Best of Antrobus

    Tales of Diplomatic Misadventure

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The finest of the classic short stories of diplomatic mischief from the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.Dark is the day when culture comes to Sczbog. The capital of Vulgaria, nestled snugly behind the Iron Curtain, has long been devoid of higher thought, and that is the way the men in the British embassy like it. But when the French embassy gives a lecture on ... Read more

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  • Spirit of Place

    Letters and Essays on Travel

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The definitive collection of travel writings by the New York Times –bestselling author and one of the twentieth century's best-loved journeyers.From the moment of his birth, Lawrence Durrell was far from home. A British child in India, he was sent to England to receive an education, and by his early twenties had already tired of his native land. With family in tow, he departed for Greece and ... Read more

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  • Balthazar

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series Book 2 - The Alexandria Quartet
    The second Alexandria Quartet novel, which boldly questions perception and the nature of contemporary love, from the New York Times –bestselling author.In Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before World War II, Durrell's narrator, Darley, seeks to fully understand his sexual obsession with two women: the infamous Justine, and Melissa, a dancer. In Darley's conversations with Balthazar, a doctor and ... Read more

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  • Justine

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series Book 1 - The Alexandria Quartet
    The New York Times –bestselling author's "very remarkable" first Alexandria novel tells a haunting story of love, desire, and deception in pre-WWII Egypt ( New York Herald Tribune Book Review ).Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between World Wars I and II, Justine is the first installment in the distinguished Alexandria Quartet. Here Lawrence Durrell crafts an exqui... ... Read more

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  • Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume One

    Blue Thirst, Sicilian Carousel, and Bitter Lemons of Cyprus

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Travel writing "as luminous as the Mediterranean air" from the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet ( Time ).Born in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle, along with his brother, Gerald, who would also go on to be a writer and a natur... ... Read more

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  • Mountolive

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series Book 3 - The Alexandria Quartet
    In this third novel, the New York Times –bestselling author's Alexandria "is now as real as Hawthorne's Rome, Proust's Paris, Loti's Constantinople" ( The Saturday Review ).David Mountolive is a British diplomat who views love as just another everyday transaction. But as romance turns to betrayal and secret alliances are exposed, Mountolive's affair will bring the true complexity... ... Read more

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  • Diplomatic Adventures

    Esprit de Corps, Stiff Upper Lip, and Sauve Qui Peut

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author's Antrobus stories comprise "a rewarding cocktail based on two parts Wodehouse and half a part of H. H. Munro" ( The New York Times ).Versatile British novelist, travel writer, and member of the real-life family portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrells in Corfu, Lawrence Durrell worked in the Foreign Service during ... ... Read more

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  • Lawrence Durrell's Notes on Travel Volume Two

    Prospero's Cell, Reflections on a Marine Venus, and Spirit of Place

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Three travel memoirs featuring writing "as luminous as the Mediterranean air" from the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet.The real-life family portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrells in CorfuBorn in India, acclaimed British novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an... ... Read more

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  • Sicilian Carousel

    Adventures on an Italian Island

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    A moving account of friendship and discovery on the island of Sicily by the New York Times –bestselling travel writer and author of the Alexandria Quartet.Despite decades spent writing poetic evocations of the timeless pleasures of life in the Mediterranean, Lawrence Durrell had never set foot on the sea's largest island: mysterious, impenetrable Sicily. For years his friend Martine begged him to ... Read more

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  • Sauve Qui Peut

    Stories

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    For the Brits in Vulgaria, diplomatic misadventure is the order of the day in this lively story collection from the New York Times –bestselling author.In the words of Antrobus, master diplomat in the King's service, diplomacy was once "a quiet and restful trade carried on in soothing inanity among a hundred shady legations and embassies all over the globe." What changed? What caused this most ... Read more

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  • The Avignon Quintet

    Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, and Quinx

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    Series series The Avignon Quintet
    From the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet comes a landmark five-part series hailed as "one of the great novels of our time" ( Sunday Times ).One of the most celebrated English writers ever, Lawrence Durrell was a bestselling author whose vivid metafictions pushed the boundaries of modern literature. The cosmopolitan provocateur transcended borders, ide... ... Read more

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  • Esprit de Corps

    Sketches from Diplomatic Life

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet offers eleven sketches of life in service of the crown.After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over old times. His memory is long, and every old embarrassment still rankles—no matter how ridiculous. The incident ... Read more

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