Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller

Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller PDF Author: George Wickes
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Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller

Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller PDF Author: George Wickes
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Pages : 400

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Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980

Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-1980 PDF Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811217309
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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In 1935 a young Englishman living on Corfu wrote enthusiastically to a middle-aged Brooklynite who had just published a succes de scandale in Paris: ... Tropic [of Cancer] turns the corner into a new life which has regained its bowels." Henry Miller, realizing that in Lawrence Durrell he had hooked his ideal reader, responded: "You're the first Britisher who's written me an intelligent letter about the book." Thus began a correspondence that ended only with Miller's death in 1980 - nearly 1,000,000 words later. The Durrell-Miller Letters, 1935-80 contains an extensive and representative selection of the total correspondence. Almost half of the present volume has never been published before, including some recently recovered "lost" letters; in addition, many passages expurgated from letters published in 1963 have been restored. Editor Ian S. MacNiven of the State University of New York, Maritime College, is quite right to regard the Durrell-Miller correspondence as a dual biography of the creative lives of two of this century'sgreat literary iconoclasts, a biography "At once as serious as Schopenhauer and as winning as wine." "

The Henry Miller Reader

The Henry Miller Reader PDF Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201117
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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A collection of works spanning the entire career of great 20th-century American writer Henry Miller, edited and introduced by Lawrence Durrell.

The Colossus of Maroussi

The Colossus of Maroussi PDF Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811218570
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Henry Miller’s landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond’s backpack. Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Miller’s The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel literature. It has preceded the footsteps of prominent travel writers such as Pico Iyer and Rolf Potts. The book Miller would later cite as his favorite began with a young woman’s seductive description of Greece. Miller headed out with his friend Lawrence Durrell to explore the Grecian countryside: a flock of sheep nearly tramples the two as they lie naked on a beach; the Greek poet Katsmbalis, the “colossus” of Miller’s book, stirs every rooster within earshot of the Acropolis with his own loud crowing; cold hard-boiled eggs are warmed in a village’s single stove, and they stay in hotels that “have seen better days, but which have an aroma of the past.”

The Dark Labyrinth

The Dark Labyrinth PDF Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453261516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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DIVDIVWho will survive the Labyrinth of Crete?/divDIV /divDIVA 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 girl, and the mysterious Lord Gracean. The group is prepared for a trifling day of sightseeing and maybe even a glimpse of the legendary Minotaur, but instead is suddenly stuck in a nightmare when a rockslide traps them deep within the labyrinth. Who among the passengers will make it out alive? And for those who emerge, will anything ever be the same?/div/div

Art and Outrage

Art and Outrage PDF Author: Alfred Perlès
Publisher: New York : Dutton, 1961 [c1959]
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Amateurs In Eden

Amateurs In Eden PDF Author: Joanna Hodgkin
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0748131094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Nancy Durrell was a woman famous for her silences. Anaïs Nin said 'I think often of Nancy's most eloquent silences, Nancy talking with her fingers, her hair, her cheeks, a wonderful gift. Music again.' As the first wife Lawrence Durrell, author of The Alexandria Quartet, it is perhaps surprising that she is an unknown entity, a constant presence in the biographies of Durrell and others in the Bloomsbury set, yet always a shadowy figure, beautiful and enigmatic. But who was the woman who was with Durrell during the most important years of his development as a writer? Joanna Hodgkin decides to retrace her mother's fascinating story: the escape from her toxic and mysterious family; the years in bohemian literary London and Paris in the 1930s; marriage to Durrell and their discovery of the 'Eden' of pre-war Corfu and her desperate struggle to survive in Palestine alone with a small child as the British Mandate collapsed. Amateurs in Eden is a fascinating biography of a literary marriage and of an unusual woman struggling to live an independent life.

Reflections on a Marine Venus

Reflections on a Marine Venus PDF Author: Lawrence Durrell
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453261672
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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After World War II, an Englishman seeks peace on an ancient Greek island in this “remarkable” travel memoir (The New York Times). Islomania is a disease not yet classified by Western science, but to those afflicted its symptoms are all too recognizable. Men like Lawrence Durrell are struck by a powerful need to live on the ancient islands of the Mediterranean, where the clear blue Aegean is always within reach. After four tortuous wartime years in Egypt, Durrell finds a post on the island of Rhodes, where the British are attempting to return Greece to the sleepy peace it enjoyed in the ’30s. From his first morning, when a dip in the frigid sea jolts him awake for what feels like the first time in years, Durrell breathes in the fullest joys of island life, meeting villagers, eating exotic food, and throwing back endless bottles of ouzo, as though the war had never happened at all. The charms of his stay there still resonate today, for the pleasures of Greece are older than history itself.

Sunday After the War

Sunday After the War PDF Author: Henry Miller
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122404X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"I always carry over 40,000 gold francs about with me in my belt. They weight about 40 pounds, and I am beginning to get dysentery from the load." A collection of stories and excerpts from longer works.

Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller

Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller PDF Author: Lawrence Durrell (Schriftsteller)
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