The classic novel by Lawrence Durrell, now in the Faber Modern Classics series with a new foreword by novelist Victoria Hislop.
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 Sommieres in 1990.
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