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Lawrence George Durrell CBE ( / ˈdʊrəl, ˈdʌr -/; [1] 27 February 1912 [2] – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell . Born in India to British colonial parents, he was sent to England at the age of eleven for his education.
Lawrence Durrell (born Feb. 27, 1912, Jullundur, India—died Nov. 7, 1990, Sommières, France) was an English novelist, poet, and writer of topographical books, verse plays, and farcical short stories who is best known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet, a series of four interconnected novels.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- November 7, 1990
- February 27, 1912
- The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet, #1-4)
- Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
- Balthazar (The Alexandria Quartet, #2)
- Mountolive (The Alexandria Quartet, #3)
The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. A critical and commercial success, the first three books present three perspectives on a single set of events and characters in Alexandria, Egypt, before and during the Second World War.
- Lawrence Durrell
- 1961
- Audrey Webster
- The Alexandria Quartet. Depending on who you ask, the Alexandria Quartet is either four short novels or one massive book with a higher page count than War and Peace.
- The Avignon Quintet. The Avignon Quintet is the product of Durrell's interest in experimental fiction, which developed while he was writing the Alexandria Quartet.
- Stiff Upper Lip. If there’s one word to describe this collection of stories it’s "hilarious." And we don’t mean a light chuckle here and there—we mean laugh-out-loud funny.
- Spirit of Place. As a lifelong traveler, Durrell spent years writing about his adventures across the globe. Spirit of Place is a collection of essays and letters about his time in the Mediterranean and Aegean islands.
Lawrence Durrell was born in Jalandhar, India. A versatile writer, his work includes novels, plays, travel writing, criticism, short stories and poems. His first literary work, The Black Book, appeared in Paris in 1938.
Durrell was critically considered a very good poet. In the 1930s and early 1940s, his was a beautifully modulated “new voice in a new time,” as G.S. Fraser noted in Lawrence Durrell.
