Lawrence Durrell's Endpapers and Inklings 1933-1988. Volume 1. Autobiographies, Fictions, Spirit of Place

This volume is a collection of Lawrence Durrellâ (TM)s prose writings from his earliest years until shortly before his death. It is illustrated with photographs, cartoons by This unique collection of work by Lawrence Durrell brings together a vast range of unpublished and ephemeral material spanning his entire writing career, illustrating the diversity, candour, depth of interests and humanity, humour, philosophical imagination and critical and aesthetic vision of one of the twentieth centuryâ (TM)s leading poets and novelists. Illustrated throughout with photographs, cartoons by Lawrence and Nancy Durrell, manuscript notes by Durrell and memorabilia, Lawrence Durrellâ (TM)s Endpapers and Inklings 1933-1988 provides the general reader, the specialist and the book collector with an unprecedented insight into Durrellâ (TM)s creativity and literary craftsmanship. This volume contains: â oeDurrell on Durrellâ (the writerâ (TM)s autobiographical essays); â oeThe Artist's Eyeâ (detailing Durrellâ (TM)s interest in the visual arts); and â oeFictionsâ , including the unpublished The Magnetic Island and the unfinished novel â oeSapphoâ . It also encompasses â oeDurrell at Warâ (letters and essays relating to World War 2) and â oeSpirit of Placeâ (essays and prefaces including a deleted chapter from Reflections on a Marine Venus, an account of a 1949 duty trip through Titoâ (TM)s Yugoslavia, and in-depth surveys of the Cyprus situation in the 1950s).