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Lawrence Durrell was born exactly a century ago, on 27 February 1912, in British India, where his parents were colonial expatriates. ...

Once again, I've finished rereading the excellent book on Provence by Lawrence Durrell , Caesar's Vast Ghost , published in 1990 jus...

In my earlier post entitled First encounter with Lawrence Durrell [ display ] , I think I made it perfectly clear that this British novelis...

When I left Australia for Europe in January 1962 on the Greek ship Bretagne , I was traveling light. But I had nevertheless found room in a ...

[Google Maps image — Click to enlarge] Route Saussine 15 Only of late have I come to see this house As something poisoned when I paid for it...

After my arrival in Paris in 1962, I was exhilarated—among countless other things—by the possibility of purchasing and reading the original ...

The first time in my life that I tuned in exclusively to a single author, reading nothing else, was back in my adolescent Durrell days. Tota...

I don't wish to appear foolishly pretentious, but I still believe that the most readable English-language book about Provence and the Fr...

From a scientific viewpoint, causality is a concept that enables us to predict that such-and-such an event will soon occur as a consequence...