Lawrence Durrell





Lawrence Durrell

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born
February 27, 1912 in Jalandhar, India

died
November 07, 1990

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Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968 due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Hence, he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain under new laws and had to apply for a visa for each entry. His most famous work is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.

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Average rating: 4.08 · 8,010 ratings · 729 reviews · 95 distinct works
The Alexandria Quartet
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 2,008 ratings — published 1957 — 15 editions
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Justine (The Alexandria Qua...
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 1,786 ratings — published 1957 — 42 editions
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Balthazar (The Alexandria Q...
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 1957 — 27 editions
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Clea (The Alexandria Quarte...
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 1957 — 26 editions
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Mountolive (The Alexandria ...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 744 ratings — published 1957 — 29 editions
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 1957 — 19 editions
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The Black Book
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 1960 — 10 editions
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The Dark Labyrinth
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions
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The Avignon Quintet
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions
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Prospero's Cell
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions
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3.613793103448276 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 145 ratings
“Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?”
Lawrence Durrell, Justine

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”
Lawrence Durrell

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
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