Lawrence Durrell

Having grown up in the Middle East, I find a particular appeal in novels such as Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet and Park’s Coelestis.

August and September Favourites « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2007

Ms. Frege is among those who recall when Alexandria was known as Little Paris, home to a vast community of Europeans and Jews, described by novelist Lawrence Durrell as the city of "five races, five languages, a dozen creeds."

A Tale of Two Alexandrias Marc Champion 2011

I found lines and characters like that everywhere in my favorite authors: Fielding and Sterne, Wharton and James, Fitzgerald and Lawrence Durrell.

Lev Raphael: Jane Austen Takes No Prisoners Lev Raphael 2011

I found lines and characters like that everywhere in my favorite authors: Fielding and Sterne, Wharton and James, Fitzgerald and Lawrence Durrell.

Lev Raphael: Jane Austen Takes No Prisoners Lev Raphael 2011

Writers such as John Fowles, Lawrence Durrell, Iris Murdoch and Anthony Burgess have also seen dips in their posthumous reputations, but are likely to be reassessed.

Bibliophilia for Beginners Andrew McKie 2011

In the late 1950s, when Provence was still an uncharted destination, writer Lawrence Durrell rhapsodized about an enchanted landscape — vines that were "glittering silver-green bundles, or softly powdered by the gold dust of the summers," set against a "taut wind-haunted blue sky," wh ere the "great wines of the south sleep softly on the French earth."

Coasting High in Provence Lanie Goodman 2011

Despite having written poems as vivid and compelling as this, Spencer never found the prominence of the poets with whom he is associated: Keith Douglas, Lawrence Durrell, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice.

Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer – review 2011

Wartime Egypt had a thriving British expatriate social scene, and a fertile literary subculture that included the writers Elizabeth David and Lawrence Durrell, who both moved there in 1941, after the Nazis invaded Greece.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

In 1998, just before recording the first Chocolate Genius album, " Black Music " V2 Records, Mr. Thompson finished reading Lawrence Durrell ' s Alexandria Quartet tetralogy of novels; he was intrigued by the idea of sustaining themes and characters over a series of works.

The Assorted Flavors of Chocolate Genius Inc. Martin Johnson 2010

Burgess was a good deal more prolific than Lawrence Durrell or Nicholas Monsarrat.

Some Burgessery « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009