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Prospero’s Cell: Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu

By Lawrence Durrell

Book information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2012
ISBN
0571201652, 9780571201655
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1525203 bytes)
Pages
176\0
Time added
2018-11-03 06:29:03

Description

A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corfu. 'One of Lawrence Durrell's best books - indeed, in its gem-like miniature quality, among the best books ever written.' Freya Stark 'This charming idyll depicts the country life and cosmopolitan society of Corfu in the years immediately before the war . . . The matter of it is as sound as the story is delightful.' Sunday Times 'Corfu, that Ionian island whose idyllic yet blood-stained history goes back the best part of a thousand years, could not have found a fitter chronicler than Mr Durrell. For he is a poet, with all a poet's sensibility, and a humanist to boot, with a keen eye for character and a scholar's reverence for antiquity.' Daily Telegraph

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