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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Lawrence Durrell
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(1912–90) Poet, novelist and travel-writer who spent the middle years of his life in the eastern Mediterranean. Corfu was his home in the 1930s and was the subject of the first of his island books, Prospero's Cell (1945); in the 1950s it was Cyprus which gave him his material for Bitter Lemons (1957). With the German occupation of Greece in World War II he moved to Egypt and from 1944 was head of the British Information Office in Alexandria; the ancient city with its polyglot population gave him his material for the *Alexandria Quartet.
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