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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 949.55 EAN: 9781604190038 ISBN: 1604190035 Label: Axios Press Manufacturer: Axios Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 258 Publication Date: September 25, 2008 Publisher: Axios Press Studio: Axios Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Prospero's Cell is the story of a young man's escape from a grey, industrialized England to a sunny Greek island. Durrell, later a world famous novelist, had it all: a new wife, a life of swimming, fishing, sailing, reading and writing, good food and wine, colorful new friends, and an historic island of captivating beauty. Then this enchanting idyll abruptly ends with the onset of World War II and evacuation to Egypt. Average Rating:
 Rating: - A small classic!I've lost track of how many times I've read "Prospero's Cell." Durrell's use of metaphor and simile is at times brilliant; it is always interesting. Every time I return to "Prospero," I become Durrell's companion, walking the cobblestone streets, swimming in aquarium-clear waters, treading grapes. He has the finest understanding of Greek character I've ever seen in a non-Greek. His honest respect and affection are so real. The books of he and his brother Gerald ignited the mid-twentieth century tourist ... Read More Rating: - Bright shards in a wine-dark seaThe setting for Shakespeare's "Tempest" is the Greek island of Corfu, argues one of the characters in this book, expounding on a deeply held belief of its author. The 'presiding genius' of Corfu, or as it was once called, Corcyra, is none other than Zeus Pantocrator. For the readers of his island books, the genius of place is Lawrence Durrell. According to the introduction by Carol Peirce (University of Baltimore, 1996), "Durrell composed "Prospero's Cell" as if it were a journal ... Read More 
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