Durrell was one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Born in India, he lived in and celebrated the Mediterranean world as a novelist, essayist, and travel writer.
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'The politics of love, the intrigues of desire, good and evil, virtue and caprice, love and murder, moved obscurely in the dark corners of Alexandria's streets and squares, brothels and drawing-rooms - moved like a great congress of eels in the slime of p... SEE MORE