MOUNTOLIVE (318 pp.)—Lawrence Durrell—Duffon ($3.95). In this, the third of a projected quartet of novels, Author Durrell continues the febrile investigation of life and love in prewar Egypt so ...

THE DARK LABYRINTH (266 pp.)—Lawrence Durrell—Dutton ($3.95). A wildly disparate group of people, traveling the Mediterranean on a cruise ship called Europa, disembark in Crete to explore a labyrinth ...

‘An education system based on the abacus and a theology which got left behind with Augustine and Aquinas’. This is what someone says about Egypt in Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet. As other ...

THE last time I saw Lawrence Durrell in Paris he was on his way to London, where he was to pick up one of his daughters for the Christinas holidays. He had, as ever, that faintly wind-blown air of a ...

Josh O’Connor, as Lawrence “Larry” Durrell in MASTERPIECE’s The Durrells in Corfu.

During one of my days in Nicosia, I decided to travel north to the coastal town of Girne, which before the division was known as Kyrenia. On my map it was labelled as Keryneia, and some of the guide ...