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Title	:	Prospero's Cell
Author	:	Lawrence Durrell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	July 3rd 2000 by Faber Faber (first published 1945)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. Cultural. Greece. Autobiography. Memoir. History

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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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Original Title:	Prospero's Cell
ISBN:	0571201652 (ISBN13: 9780571201655)
Edition Language:	English

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Read for Book Riots's 2017 "Read Harder" challenge: read a travel book."Prospero's Cell" was the first of Lawrence Durrell's hugely successful Mediterranean islands books, and it launched a rush of sun-starved Brits to the Greek Islands. His flowery prose caught the imagination of a post-war generation, who relished his descriptions of "gigantic plane trees, the bluff ilex-grown fortresses...a conspiracy of light, air blue sea and cypresses."He conjures up a world where he and his beautiful wife

Written in journal format this is part history part travelogue of Corfu. Lawrence Durrell lived on Corfu for little over five years with his first wife Nancy Myers. Nancy has been airbrushed out of Gerald's account "My family and other animals" and doesn't feature much in Lawrence's account. When she does feature she is dubbed "N". He moved to the island when he was twenty six years old. "It is April and we have taken an old fisherman's house in the extreme north of the island Kalamai. Ten

Fate can be a cruel mistress. And sometimes she can be wonderfully kind and place all the ingredients in the right place at the right time thereby creating something almost on the other side of wonderful. Lawrence Durrell could have been born in a time and place when he chose or was forced to have a static existence. He might have lived without the funds to furnish his travels and his exploration of all sides of the Mediterranean. Or he might have been born with funds and an unquenchable

This is probably my favorite book to read and read again when the weather gets cold. Inspires travel lust and urges to quit one's job. A collection of Durrell's memories, journal entries and highly romanticized impressions from his travels in Corfu, Greece, before WWII.

Typically Durrell, lush to the point of over-ripeness, but very interesting.

I enjoyed this book as a poetic and adult complement to Gerald Durrell's childhood memories of Corfu. Many of the same characters reappear and are seen thru Lawrence's adult eyes. The epilogue is sad; the island seems to have been a bombing range during WWII.

An other great book on the Greek Islands by Durrell. The ending moved me to tears.