Román zachycuje skupinku mladých lidí v Londýně na sklonku 30. let. Poflakují se v zaplivaném hotelu, nemají moc peněz, zato si užívají sexu a alkoholu. Opovrhují dobovou morálkou a ostrovní mentalitou vůbec. Místy jde o textové koláže... Zobraziť viac
David Mountolive, a young English diplomat, has been obsessed with Egypt ever since a youthful love affair... Zobraziť viac
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late twentieth century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and brilliant evocation of wartime Alexandria... Zobraziť viac
Lose yourself in this glorious memoir of the island jewel of Corfu by the king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu... Zobraziť viac
Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances: a seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt, introduced by Andre Aciman (Call Me By Your Name and Find Me) ... Zobraziť viac
His affair with Clea, am agnetic, bisexual artist, not only changes the lovers, but transforms the dead, forever... Zobraziť viac
'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... Zobraziť viac
Bitter Lemons of Cyprus is Lawrence Durrell's unique account of his time in Cyprus, during the 1950s Enosis movement for freedom of the island from British colonial rule. Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, it is a document at once... Zobraziť viac