Lawrence Durrell: A Succinct and Balanced Biography of a Serial Foreign Resident

This is a useful brief biography of Lawrence Durrell by I. S. MacNiven


Lawrence Durrell, travel writer?

Before the publication of The Alexandria Quartet, in which the city itself looms almost larger than the human characters, Durrell was most widely known for his books about Greek islands. These are not so much travel books. “It would be far more accurate,” as Richard Aldington remarked, “to describe them as ‘foreign-residence’ books.” 

From the Preface, Lawrence Durrell, Spirit of Place, Letters & Essays on Travel, ed. Alan G. Thomas

Durrell Quotes