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life and works - not as extensive as Dryden
'''Lawrence Durrell''' (1912-1990) was the English author of ''The Alexandria Quartet'' (1957-1960).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
'''Lawrence Durrell''' (1912-1990) was the English author of ''The Alexandria Quartet'' (1957-1960).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
==Life and Works==
Durrell was born February 27, 1912 in northern India and was sent to be educated in Englan at age 11, but he later despised the conditions and called it "The English Death".<ref name="your">http://biography.yourdictionary.com/lawrence-durrell</ref> He moved to the island of Corfu, in Greece, though the left for Egypt during the Second World War with a press job.<ref name="folio">http://www.foliosociety.com/author/lawrence-durrell</ref> He was highly influenced by [[Henry Miller]]'s ''Tropic of Cancer'' and [[James Joyce]] in writing ''The Alexandria Quartet'', a set of four complex novels set in recent Alexandria.<ref name="brit">"Durrell, Lawrence". ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.</ref> These novels are all set during the life of a fictional character called L. G. Darley and act as a view of modern romance and the emotions surrounding descript sex in Alexandria.<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-of-a-lifetime-the-alexandria-quartet-by-lawrence-durrell-8485449.html</ref><ref>"The Alexandria Quartet". ''Encyclopedia Britannica''.</ref> Durrell died of a stroke on November 7, 1990.<ref name="folio"></ref>
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