A morality tale from the New York Times –bestselling author that will "delight lovers of the sensuous world of the Greek islands" ( The New York Times ).A group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete's famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent gi...

From France to Egypt, a man and his lovers are invented and reinvented in the first Avignon Quintet novel from the New York Times –bestselling author.For British doctor Bruce Drexel, a return to Provence is bittersweet. Here, at a rustic chateau, he once fell in love with Sylvie, the Frenchwoman who would become his wife, and befriended her brother, Piers. The three made up a peculiar, potent ménage for years until Sylvie...

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...

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...

From the New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet, a memoir of the idyllic Greek island that is "among the best books ever written" ( The New York Times ).The real-life family portrayed in the PBS Masterpiece production, The Durrells in CorfuBefore Lawrence Durrell became a renowned novelist, poet, and travel...

Author's first novel, product of a lengthy correspondence with Henry Miller and published by the later for Jack Kahane in the late '30s. Laid the groundwork for Durrell's earth-shattering Alexandria Quartet decades later.

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...

A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fictionIt is the eve of Britain’s withdrawal from Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Israel. But the course of history is uncertain, and Israel’s territorial enemies plan to smother the new country at its birth. Judith Roth has escaped the concentration camps in Germany only to be plunged into the new conflict, o...

Rare and previously unpublished essays and letters showcasing "Durrell's wit, elegance, philosophy, joie de vivre and flaming intelligence" ( The Irish Times)."The proverb says that whoever sees the world from the back of an elephant learns the secrets of the jungle and becomes a seer. I had to be content to become a poet." ?Lawrence DurrellBest known for his novels and travel writing, Lawrence Durrell defied easy classification within twent...

‘Mountolive who had already found the open sesame of language ready to hand, suddenly began to feel himself really penetrating a foreign country…’ In Mountolive, the third volume in Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet, the events surrounding the interwoven community of Nessim, Justine, Narouz, Pursewarden and the other major characters are given a very different perspective. The intrigues and complex relationships are seen through the political prism of a world plunging towards war. David Mountol...

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 ...

An idealistic inventor is seduced by a mysterious firm in this Faustian novel by the "virtuoso" New York Times –bestselling author of the Alexandria Quartet ( The New York Times ).Felix Charlock's scientific genius is unrivaled—and so is his very special invention. So special, in fact, that a shadowy and enigmatic international firm, called Merlin, recruits Felix and marries him ...