The Alexandria Quartet' shifts with every reread, revealing new truths about love, memory, desire, power and the stories we ...

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THE last time I saw Lawrence Durrell in Paris he was on his way to London, where he was to pick up one of his daughters for the Christinas holidays. He had, as ever, that faintly wind-blown air of a ...

THE DARK LABYRINTH (266 pp.)—Lawrence Durrell—Dutton ($3.95). A wildly disparate group of people, traveling the Mediterranean on a cruise ship called Europa, disembark in Crete to explore a labyrinth ...

Lawrence Durrell—one of the greatest British writers and philhellenes of the 20th century—achieved spectacular success with “The Alexandria Quartet,” the first volume of which appeared in 1957. But ...

I tell you love sister it’s just a kiss away. – Jagger & Richards Nothing but the act of physical love tells us the truth about one another. – Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell, like Jagger and ...