Item type | Location | Call number | Copy | Status | Notes | Date due |
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Books | Βιβλιοθήκη Ανθός | ΞΛ 823 DUR (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | 1979 |
ΞΛ 823 DOYSherlock Holmes | ΞΛ 823 DOYΟι περιπέτειες του Σέρλοκ Χολμς | ΞΛ 823 DURConstance | ΞΛ 823 DURThe Dark Labyrinth | ΞΛ 823 ELIThe mill on the floss | ΞΛ 823 ELIΠριν προφτάσει ν' ανθίσει |
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Δωρεά από Rod. Denley Jones
This captivating Mediterranean novel was written by Lawrence Durrell immediately after finishing his exquisite vignette about Corfu, Prospero's Cell, and a decade before Justine. The story is set on Crete just after the War, as an odd assortment of English travellers come ashore from a cruise ship to explore the island and in particular to examine a dangerous local labyrinth. They include an extrovert painter, a spiritualist, a Protestant spinster with a fox terrier, an antiquarian peer and minor poet, a soldier with guilty memories of the Cretan resistance, a pretty convalescent and an eccentric married couple.
To some extent the book is a roman à clef and Durrell's characters talk with great reality about their experiences, themselves and a certain psychological unease that has led most of them to embark on their journey. The climax is a disastrous visit to the labyrinth, with its reported minotaur. The novel is a gripping piece of story-telling, full of atmosphere and the vivid first-hand writing about Mediterranean landscape and people of which Durrell was a master.
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