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    Henry Jervis White-Jervis, History of the Island of Corfu and of the Republic of the Ionian Islands.

      S. Atkinson, An Artist in Corfu (1911).

      Viscount Kirkwall, “Four Years in the Ionian.”

      William Goodisson, AB., A Historical and Topographical Essay upon the Islands of Corfu, etc. (1822).

      D. T. Anstead, The Ionian Islands (1863).

      Index

      A

      Adams 131, 138, 139

      Anastasius 22, 29–31, 54–59, 87, 97, 99

      architecture 11

      Arsenius, St. 17

      B

      Barba Giorgos 84, 86

      Basil 44, 52

      Boulgaris 40

      brain cutlets 168–171

      C

      Cadi, the 80, 84

      Caliban 121–123, 232

      Calypso’s island 95

      Cape Stiletto, legend of 32

      Carbide-flare fishing 32

      Caroline 195–196, 200 – 202, 208

      chutney 135, 138

      Cicero 100, 103, 113

      Colyva 151

      Corfu

      derivation 108

      synoptic history 19

      costume, island 21

      Count D. 115–116, 151

      Cressida stream 91, 127

      Cricket 3 133–134

      D

      Demetrius Poliorcetes 112

      Dervenagas 84

      Diodorus 109, 110, 112

      dishes, Greek 71

      Dorothy 185

      drinks 150, 175, 181

      dynamiter 155

      E

      Earl of Guilford 131

      eel 29–31, 58

      F

      Fano Island 41, 95, 99

      Father Nicholas 21, 30, 61–65, 71, 73–74, 77–78, 80, 87, 99, 134, 177–182, 188

      Forts, Corfu 106, 137, 139, 218

      Fynes Morison 107

      G

      geology 2 19, 11

      Germanicus 113

      Gladstone 132

      Gnio-Gnio 79, 85

      Golden Book 139, 141

      Goodisson 126, 245

      Govino 32, 63, 142

      Grand Vizier, the 80

      grapes 23, 28

      treading 194, 199–200

      H

      Hadjiavatis 74–78, 84

      Hermones, Cave of 92

      I

      Ionian Academy 131

      J

      Jason 109, 218

      Judas Iscariot 127

      K

      Kallikanzaroi 162

      Kalocheiritis 37–39

      Karaghiosis 69–86, 211

      Kassopi 90, 100, 110, 146, 221

      Kastellani dance 177–183

      Kirkwall, Viscount 135

      L

      Lakones 23, 102, 221

      Lanassa 112–113

      Lithgow 105, 107, 122

      “Lord,” the 80, 235

      Lycophron 111

      M

      Macria 109

      Maillol 165

      Mantinea 168, 172, 173, 175

      Medea 109

      Mnesippus 103, 111, 214

      Mouse Island 91, 102, 131, 143

      Mustalevria 200

      Myrtiotissa 154, 182, 201, 218

      N

      Napoleon 4 130, 166

      Nausicaa 90, 95, 99

      Nelson 60, 205

      Nero 100, 166

      Nimiec 27, 70, 72, 80, 82, 108, 140, 192, 194, 195, 201, 208

      O

      octopus 29, 54, 56–57, 219

      Odysseus 98–100

      Odyssey 89–90, 98–99

      olive 229

      gathering 101, 147

      oil 55, 58, 145, 189, 212

      pressing 148

      trees 21, 23, 31, 64, 66, 105, 131, 147, 149, 150, 161, 192, 194, 237

      P

      Pagan survivals 151, 154

      Paleocastrizza 23, 91–99, 102, 125, 176–177, 185, 215, 218

      Paleopolis 91, 102, 114

      Pan 162

      Paramythia 39

      peasant remedies 214

      peasants, time sense 96

      Peltours 27, 53, 70

      Periander 111–112

      Places to See 218

      Prospero’s Island 121, 166

      puppets 78, 86

      Pyrrhus 112

      R

      Richard Lionheart 104

      S

      salt pans 91, 122–123

      Scheria 109

      sea legend 125–126

      sea scorpion 55

      Shadow play 70–72, 81, 83

      shoulder net 58

      “Sign of the Partridge” 16

      Spiridion, St. 12, 19, 28, 35, 36, 43, 104, 135, 189, 217, 218

      church 6 35–36, 40–43, 50, 61, 100, 138, 153, 158

      clock 50–51

      miracles 37, 43

      procession 41–42, 85

      Spiro Americanos 143

      squid 54, 56–58, 81

      Stephanides, Theodore 14, 19

      Stephano, St., lighthouse 59

      submarine 73

      sweetmeats, Greek 41, 71, 220

      Sykopita 200

      T

      Tempest, The 9, 121–124, 164, 232, 243

      Theodora Augusta, St. 38, 43

      Theodore Stephanides 14, 19

      Things to Visit 218

      Thorpe 124

      Tiberius, villa of 100–102

      tobacco, smuggled 59

      Totila 114–115

      Trata 183

      U

      Ulysses 20, 89–91, 95–96, 98, 103, 105, 109, 131

      V

      vampires 153, 159

      Van Norden 28, 32, 58–59, 71, 94–95

      Veronica 27, 185

      Vetrano 104, 215

      Vido Island 136–137, 141, 142

      Village festivities 6 100, 133, 141

      Villehardouin 104

      W

      water

      tasting 150

      wines, local 14, 221

      A Biography of Lawrence Durrell

      Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990) was a novelist, poet, and travel writer best known for the Alexandria Quartet, his acclaimed series of four novels set before and during World War II in Alexandria, Egypt. Durrell’s work was widely praised, with his Quartet winning the greatest accolades for its rich style and bold use of multiple perspectives. Upon the Quartet’s completion, Life called it “the most discussed and widely admired serious fiction of our time.”

      Born in Jalandhar, British India, in 1912 to Indian-born British colonials, Durrell was an avid and dedicated writer from an early age. He studied in Darjeeling before his parents sent him to England at the age of eleven for his formal education. When he failed to pass his entrance examinations at Cambridge University, Durrell committed himself to becoming an established writer. He published his first book of poetry in 1931 when he was just nineteen years old, and later worked as a jazz pianist to help fund his passion for writing.

      Determined to escape England, which he found dreary, Durrell convinced his widowed mother, siblings, and first wife, Nancy Isobel Myers, to move to the Greek island of Corfu in 1935. The island lifestyle reminded him of the India of his childhood. That same year, Durrell published his first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers. He also read Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and, impressed by the notorious novel, he wrote an admiring letter to Miller. Miller responded in kind, and their correspondence and friendship would continue for forty-five years. Miller’s advice and work heavily influenced Durrell’s provocative third novel, The Black Book (1938), which was published in Paris. Though it was Durrell’s first book of note, The Black Book was considered mildly pornographic and thus didn’t appear in print in Britain until 1973.

      In 1940, Durrell and his wife had a daughter, Penelope Berengaria. The following year, as World War II escalated and Greece fell to the Nazis, Durrell and his family left Corfu for work in Athens, Kalamata (also in Greece), then Alexandria, Egypt. His relationship with Nancy was strained by the time they reached Egypt, and they separated in 1942. During the war, Durrell served as a press attaché to the British
    Embassy. He also wrote Prospero’s Cell, a guide to Corfu, while living in Egypt in 1945.

      Durrell met Yvette Cohen in Alexandria, and the couple married in 1947. They had a daughter, Sappho Jane, in 1951, and separated in 1955. Durrell published White Eagles Over Serbia in 1957, alongside the celebrated memoir Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (1957), which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and Justine (1957), the first novel of the Alexandria Quartet Capitalizing on the overwhelming success of Justine, Durrell went on to publish the next three novels in the series—Balthazar (1958), Mountolive (1958), and Clea (1960)—in quick succession. Upon the series’ completion, poet Kenneth Rexroth hailed it as “a tour de force of multiple-aspect narrative.”

      Durrell married again in 1961 to Claude-Marie Vincendon, who died of cancer in 1967. His fourth and final marriage was in 1973 to Ghislaine de Boysson, which ended in divorce in 1979.

      After a life spent in varied locales, Durrell settled in Sommières, France, where he wrote the Revolt of Aphrodite series as well as the Avignon Quintet. The first book in the Quintet, Monsieur (1974), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize while Constance (1982), the third novel, was nominated for the Booker Prize.

      Durrell died in 1990 at his home in Sommières.

      This photograph of Lawrence Durrell aboard his boat, the Van Norden, is taken from a negative discovered among his papers. The vessel is named after a character in Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. (Photograph held in the British Library’s modern manuscripts collection.)

      One of Nancy Durrell’s photographs from the 1930s. Pictured here is the Caique, which they used to travel around the waters of Corfu. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin, property of the Gerald Durrell Estate.)

      This photograph of Nancy and Lawrence Durrell was likely taken in Delphi, Greece, in late 1939. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin and the Gerald Durrell Estate.)

      A 1942 photograph of Lawrence Durrell with his wife, Nancy, and their daughter, Penelope, taken in Cairo. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin.)

      This manuscript notebook contains one of two drafts of Justine acquired by the British Library as part of Lawrence Durrell’s large archive in 1995. (Notebook held in the British Library’s modern manuscripts collection.)

      A page from Durrell’s notebooks, or, as he called them, the “quarry.” This page introduced his notes on the “colour and narrative” of scenes in Justine. (Photo courtesy of the Lawrence Durrell Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.)

      “As well as serving delicious food in an idyllic setting, the Taverna Nikolas at Agni has strong links with the Durrell story in Corfu,” says Joanna Hodgkin of this 2012 photo. Durrell lived in the neighboring town of Kalami, where his famous White House sits right above the shoreline. (Photo courtesy of Joanna Hodgkin.)

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      copyright © 1945, 1975 by Lawrence Durrell

      cover design by Jason Gabbert

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