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The Durrells
- The Story of a Family
Engelsk Hardback
The Durrells
- The Story of a Family
Engelsk Hardback

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A variously tragic tale of escapism and assimilation, Richard Bradford''s The Durrells explores the truth behind the image.

The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th century. Gerald turned them into celebrities with his tripartite memoir, beginning with My Family and Other Animals (1956) which told of his experiences with his widowed mother Louisa and three siblings during their time in 1930s Corfu. We know of the Durrells from their own writings and from the image of them created by TV, film and biographical accounts of specific figures. What we do not know is the truth.

Using previously unpublished material from the Jersey Archive, Richard Bradford unravels the lives of the famous four children of the Corfu era – Larry, Gerry, Margo and Lesli – as they find themselves geographically and emotionally divided amongst a backdrop of imperial decline and unrest. The children of moneyed colonialists, they were already used to being treated with aghast fascination by the island’s locals, and by expatriate Britons as a disgrace to the homeland.

Yet their story goes beyond the Ionian Sea, and The Durrells delves into the complex social and political circumstances in which the family lived, with seemingly constant threats of war and endangerment to both themselves and their natural environment.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
384
ISBN-13:
9781448218097
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1448218098
Udg. Dato:
5 jun 2025
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
165mm
Højde:
242mm
Forlag:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato:
5 jun 2025
Forfatter(e):
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