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Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. [1]

285 relations: A Book of Mediterranean Food, A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry, Alan G. Thomas, Albert Cossery, Alcoa Premiere, Alfred Perles, Alyscamps, Anaïs Nin, André Aciman, Anglo-Indian, Anne Poor, Anthony Calf, Anthony Powers, Any Human Heart, Audrey Beecham, Austen Harrison, Balthazar (novel), Barbara Barrie, Battle of Crete, Beat Generation, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Bellapais, Bernard Spencer, Betelgeuse in fiction, Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, Bibliography of Greece, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, Bitter Lemons, Black Music (album), Brandy Sour (Cyprus), Brenda Venus, British Council, British Poetry since 1945, Cairo poets, Cecil Hotel (Alexandria), Charles Haldeman, Charles Henri Ford, Charles William Daniel, Charlotte Street, Cholmondeley Award, Church of Saint Andrew, Tangier, Circle Editions, Circle Magazine, Clarke, Irwin & Company, Claude Seignolle, Clea (novel), Clea Badaro, Constance (novel), Constantine P. Cavafy, Corfu, ..., Curtis Brown (literary agents), Cypriot literature, Cyprus, David Drew Zingg, David Gascoyne, David Gentleman, David Gwyn Williams, David Sweetman, Dimitri Papadimos, Dimitris Tsaloumas, Dolly Varden (costume), Dorothy Bohm, Duff Cooper Prize, Durrell, Durrell family, E. M. Forster, E. P. Dutton, Edgar Foxall, Elizabeth David, Elizabeth David bibliography, Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author), English poetry, Ennejma Ezzahra, EOKA, Eresos, Expatriate, Extricating Young Gussie, Faber and Faber, February 1912, February 27, Frédéric Jacques Temple, Frederic Prokosch, Gangrel (magazine), Geography of Cyprus, Georg Groddeck, George Sutherland Fraser, George Whitman, Gerald Durrell, Gnosticism, Gostan Zarian, H.R. Stoneback, Henry Miller, History of Alexandria, Holiday (magazine), Horizon (magazine), Hugh Gordon Porteus, Incest in literature, Jack Beeching, Jacques Lacarrière, Jacquie Durrell, Jalandhar, James McMullan, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Jean Anouilh, Jeremy Mallinson, Joan Leigh Fermor, Joanna Hines, John Gawsworth, John Steinbeck, Jolan Chang, Joseph Fouché, Josh O'Connor, Judith (1966 film), Justine (1969 film), Justine (Durrell novel), Karen Blixen, Kingdom of Redonda, Kingsley Amis, Labyrinth, Lake Mariout, Lawrence Durrell Collection, Lawrence Samuel Durrell, Le Livre de poche, Le Sphinx, Liana Burgess, Lincoln Christ's Hospital School, List of 20th-century writers, List of American films of 1969, List of authors by name: D, List of Cannes Film Festival juries (Feature films), List of compositions by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1951–60), List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1981–90), List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10), List of English writers (D-J), List of fiction works made into feature films (D–J), List of fictional countries, List of non-fiction writers, List of novels set in Crete, List of Old Olavians, List of Old Wykehamists, List of poets, List of travel books, List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize, List of years in poetry, Livia (novel), Lord Byron in popular culture, Louisa Durrell, Loxwood, Luis de Góngora, Margaret Durrell, Marie Aspioti, Martin Seymour-Smith, Meanings of minor planet names: 2001–3000, Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu, Michaël Abiteboul, Miron Grindea, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Monsieur (novel), Moral relativism, Mountolive, My Family and Other Animals, My Family and Other Animals (film), Nanos Valaoritis, Nina Rootes, Ninety-nine Novels, No New Land, Nobel Prize in Literature, Novel sequence, November 7, Obelisk Press, Olivia Manning, Olympia Press, Oopali Operajita, Oswell Blakeston, Outremer, Palgrave's Golden Treasury, Pancyprian Gymnasium, Panic Spring, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patterson (radio series), Paul Hogarth, Penguin Books, Penguin Modern Poets, Penguin poetry anthologies, Pentalogy, Peter Porter (poet), Phallic architecture, Pied Piper of Lovers, Poetry London, Pope Joan, Postmodern literature, Praed Street, Provence, Quantum fiction, Quincunx, Quinx, Raymond Carver, Rayner Heppenstall, Reginald Horace Blyth, Rhodes, Richard Aldington, Richard Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough, Richard Pine, Robert Graves, Robin Fedden, Roger Giroux, Sebastian (Durrell novel), Shakespeare and Company (bookstore), Sidi Bishr, Simon Raven, Sommières, St Edmund's School Canterbury, St Olave's Grammar School, St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling, Stars and planetary systems in fiction, State University of New York at New Paltz, Tales of Joujouka, Tama Janowitz, Tanith Lee, Ted Patrick (editor), The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, The Alexandria Quartet, The Avignon Quintet, The Black Book (Durrell novel), The City (poem), The Colossus of Maroussi, The Durrells, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse, The Fantastic Flying Journey, The Garden of the Gods, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse, The Revolt of Aphrodite, The Rosy Crucifixion, The World at War, Theodore Stephanides, Tourmaline (novel), Travel literature, Tropic of Cancer (novel), View (magazine), Viking Press, Wilbur Smith, William Wright (author), Wolfgang Zuckermann, 1912, 1912 in India, 1912 in literature, 1912 in poetry, 1912 in the United Kingdom, 1932 in poetry, 1934 in poetry, 1935 in literature, 1937 in literature, 1938 in literature, 1943 in poetry, 1946 in poetry, 1948 in poetry, 1952 in poetry, 1953 in literature, 1953 in the United Kingdom, 1957 in literature, 1957 in the United Kingdom, 1958 in literature, 1958 in the United Kingdom, 1960 in literature, 1960 in poetry, 1960 in the United Kingdom, 1963 in poetry, 1964 in poetry, 1966 in poetry, 1968 in literature, 1968 in the United Kingdom, 1970 in literature, 1970 in the United Kingdom, 1973 Cannes Film Festival, 1973 in poetry, 1974 in literature, 1980 in poetry, 1986 in literature, 1986 in poetry, 1990, 1990 in literature, 1990 in poetry, 1990 in the United Kingdom, 20th century in literature. 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A Book of Mediterranean Food

A Book of Mediterranean Food was an influential cookery book written by Elizabeth David in 1950, her first, and published by John Lehmann.

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A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry

A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry: English and American is an anthology of poetry, edited by Oscar Williams, which was published by Scribner's, New York, in 1946, and Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, in 1947.

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Alan G. Thomas

Alan Gradon Thomas (19 October 1911, Hampstead, London – 3 August 1992), was an English bibliophile.

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Albert Cossery

Albert Cossery (3 November 1913 – 22 June 2008) was an Egyptian-born French writer.

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Alcoa Premiere

Alcoa Premiere (also known as Premiere, Presented by Fred Astaire) is an American anthology drama series that aired from October 1961 to July 1963 on ABC.

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Alfred Perles

Alfred Perlès (1897–1990) was an Austrian writer (in later life a British citizen), who was most famous for his associations with Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, and Anaïs Nin.

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Alyscamps

The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, which is a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles, France.

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Anaïs Nin

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell (February 21, 1903 – January 14, 1977), known professionally as Anaïs Nin, was a French-American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica.

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André Aciman

André Aciman (born 2 January 1951) is an American writer.

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Anglo-Indian

The term Anglo-Indians can refer to at least two groups of people: those with mixed Indian and British ancestry, and people of British descent born or living in the Indian subcontinent.

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Anne Poor

Anne Poor (January 4, 1918 – January 12, 2002) was a painter best known for her work as a combat artist in World War II and for her landscape paintings.

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Anthony Calf

Anthony Calf (born 4 May 1959) is an English actor.

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Anthony Powers

Anthony Powers (born 13 March 1953) is a British composer of classical music.

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Any Human Heart

Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart is a 2002 novel by William Boyd, a British writer.

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Audrey Beecham

Audrey Beecham or Helen Audrey Beecham (21 July 1915 – 31 January 1989) was an English poet, teacher and historian.

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Austen Harrison

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Balthazar (novel)

Balthazar, published in 1958, is the second volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell.

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Barbara Barrie

Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman, May 23, 1931) is an American actress of film, stage and television.

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Battle of Crete

The Battle of Crete (Luftlandeschlacht um Kreta, also Unternehmen Merkur, "Operation Mercury," Μάχη της Κρήτης) was fought during the Second World War on the Greek island of Crete.

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Beat Generation

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era.

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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Bellapais

Bellapais is a small village in the Kyrenia District in the northern part of Cyprus, about four miles from the town of Kyrenia.

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Bernard Spencer

Charles Bernard Spencer (1909 – 1963) was an English poet, translator, and editor.

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Betelgeuse in fiction

The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun, such as Betelgeuse, are a staple element in much science fiction.

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Bettina Shaw-Lawrence

Bettina Shaw-Lawrence also known as Betty Shaw-Lawrence, is an English 20th century figurative artist born in 1921.

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Bibliography of Greece

This bibliography of Greece is a list of books in the English language which reliable sources indicate relate to the general topic of Greece.

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Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) by British naturalist Gerald Durrell is the second volume of his autobiographical Corfu Trilogy, published from 1954 to 1978.

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Bitter Lemons

Bitter Lemons is an autobiographical work by writer Lawrence Durrell, describing the three years (1953–1956) he spent on the island of Cyprus.

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Black Music (album)

Black Music is the first album by Chocolate Genius.

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Brandy Sour (Cyprus)

The Brandy Sour is a mixed alcoholic cocktail considered the unofficial national cocktail of Cyprus.

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Brenda Venus

Brenda Venus is an American actress, model, author, ballerina and filmmaker.

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British Council

The British Council is a British organisation specialising in international cultural and educational opportunities.

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British Poetry since 1945

British Poetry since 1945 is a poetry anthology edited by Edward Lucie-Smith, first published in 1970 by Penguin Books.

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Cairo poets

The British Army presence in Egypt in World War II had, as a side effect, the concentration of a group of Cairo poets.

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Cecil Hotel (Alexandria)

The four-star Steigenberger Cecil Hotel in Alexandria, Egypt, was built as the Cecil Hotel in 1929 by the French-Egyptian Jewish Metzger family as a romantic hotel, at Saad Zaghloul square where Cleopatra's needles had been, in front of the Corniche.

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Charles Haldeman

Charles Haldeman (September 27, 1931 – January 19, 1983) was an American novelist.

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Charles Henri Ford

Charles Henri Ford (February 10, 1908 – September 27, 2002) was an American poet, novelist, diarist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist.

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Charles William Daniel

Charles William Daniel (1871-1955) was a writer and publisher who did much to disseminate Tolstoyan and pacifist ideas, and ideas about food reform and alternative medicine, in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Charlotte Street

Charlotte Street is a street in Fitzrovia, central London.

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Cholmondeley Award

The Cholmondeley Award is an annual award for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom.

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Church of Saint Andrew, Tangier

The Church of Saint Andrew is an Anglican church in Tangier, Morocco.

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Circle Editions

George Leite began Circle Editions in 1945 as an outgrowth of Circle Magazine, which was published from his Berkeley, California bookstore and gallery, daliel's (stylized with lowercase 'd').

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Circle Magazine

Circle Magazine was published from 1944 to 1948 by George Leite, initially with poet Bern Porter, later with Jody Scott.

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Clarke, Irwin & Company

Clarke, Irwin & Company was a Canadian publishing house based in Toronto, Ontario.

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Claude Seignolle

Claude Seignolle (born in Périgueux in June 25, 1917) is a French author.

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Clea (novel)

Clea, published in 1960, is the fourth volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell.

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Clea Badaro

Clea Badaro (1913–1968) was a painter who lived most of her adult life in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Constance (novel)

Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982) is the central volume of the five novels of Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet, published from 1974 to 1985.

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Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine Peter Cavafy (also known as Konstantin or Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis; Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933) was an Egyptian Greek poet, journalist and civil servant.

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Corfu

Corfu or Kerkyra (translit,; translit,; Corcyra; Corfù) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.

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Curtis Brown (literary agents)

Curtis Brown (Curtis Brown Literary and Talent Agency) is a literary and talent agency based in London, UK.

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Cypriot literature

Cypriot literature covers literature from Cyprus found mainly in Greek, Turkish, English and/or other languages, including French.

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Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

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David Drew Zingg

David Drew Zingg (December 14, 1923 – July 28, 2000), was an American photographer and journalist.

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David Gascoyne

David Gascoyne (10 October 1916 – 25 November 2001) was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement.

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David Gentleman

David William Gentleman (born 11 March 1930) is an English artist.

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David Gwyn Williams

Professor David Gwyn Williams, usually known simply as Gwyn Williams (1904–1990) was a Welsh poet, novelist, translator and academic.

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David Sweetman

David Sweetman (16 March 1943 – 7 April 2002) was a British writer, critic, teacher and broadcaster.

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Dimitri Papadimos

Dimitri Papadimos (Δημήτρης Παπαδήμος; 1 May 1918 - 3 May 1994) was a Greek photographer.

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Dimitris Tsaloumas

Dimitris Tsaloumas (13 October 1921 – 4 February 2016) was a contemporary Greek-Australian poet.

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Dolly Varden (costume)

A Dolly Varden, in this sense, is a woman's outfit fashionable from about 1869 to 1875 in Britain and the United States.

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Dorothy Bohm

Dorothy Bohm is a photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris; she is considered one of the doyennes of British photography.

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Duff Cooper Prize

The Duff Cooper Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of history, biography, political science or (very occasionally) poetry, published in English or French.

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Durrell

Durrell is a surname, and may refer to.

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Durrell family

The Durrell family included: Lawrence Samuel Durrell (1884–1928), an Anglo-Indian engineer, his wife Louisa Florence Durrell (1886–1964) and their children.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.

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E. P. Dutton

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Edgar Foxall

Edgar Foxall (1906–1990) was an English poet whose work features in one of the Penguin poetry anthologies, Poetry of the Thirties (1964).

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Elizabeth David

Elizabeth David, CBE (born Elizabeth Gwynne, 26 December 1913 – 22 May 1992) was a British cookery writer.

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Elizabeth David bibliography

Elizabeth David, the British cookery writer, published eight books in the 34 years between 1950 and 1984; the last was issued eight years before her death.

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Elizabeth Smart (Canadian author)

Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.

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English poetry

This article focuses on poetry written in English from the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland (and Ireland before 1922).

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Ennejma Ezzahra

Ennejma Ezzahra ("Star of Zahra", sometimes spelled Nejma Ezzohara), is a palace at Sidi Bou Said, in northern Tunisia, built by Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger (1872–1932) as his home there.

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EOKA

EOKA (ΕΟΚΑ) was a Greek Cypriot nationalist guerrilla organisation that fought a campaign for the end of British rule in Cyprus, for the island's self-determination and for eventual union with Greece.

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Eresos

Eresos (Ερεσός) and its twin beach village Skala Eresou are located in the southwest part of the Greek island of Lesbos.

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Expatriate

An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than their native country.

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Extricating Young Gussie

Extricating Young Gussie is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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February 1912

The following events occurred in February 1912.

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February 27

No description.

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Frédéric Jacques Temple

Frédéric Jacques Temple (born 18 August 1921 in Montpellier) is a French poet and writer.

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Frederic Prokosch

Frederic Prokosch (May 17, 1906 – June 2, 1989) was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism.

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Gangrel (magazine)

Gangrel was a short-lived quarterly literary magazine published in the United Kingdom.

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Geography of Cyprus

Cyprus is an island in the Eastern Basin of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Georg Groddeck

Georg Groddeck (13 October 1866 in Bad Kösen – 10 June 1934 in Knonau, near Zurich) was a physician and writer regarded as a pioneer of psychosomatic medicine.

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George Sutherland Fraser

George Sutherland Fraser (8 November 1915 – 3 January 1980) was a Scottish poet, literary critic and academic.

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George Whitman

George Whitman (December 12, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was the proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the celebrated English-language bookstore on Paris's Left Bank.

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Gerald Durrell

Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and television presenter.

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Gnosticism

Gnosticism (from γνωστικός gnostikos, "having knowledge", from γνῶσις, knowledge) is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieus in the first and second century AD.

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Gostan Zarian

Gostan, Constant, or Kostan Zarian (Կոստան Զարեան, Shamakhi,February 2, 1885 – Yerevan, December 11, 1969) was an Armenian writer who produced short lyric poems, long narrative poems of an epic cast, manifestos, essays, travel impressions, criticism, and fiction.

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H.R. Stoneback

Harry Robert Stoneback (born July 14, 1941 in Philadelphia) is an American academic, poet, and folk singer.

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Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing.

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History of Alexandria

The history of Alexandria dates back to the city's founding, by Alexander the Great, in 331 BC.

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Holiday (magazine)

Holiday was an American travel magazine published from 1946 to 1977.

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Horizon (magazine)

Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art was a literary magazine published in London, UK, between December 1939 and January 1950.

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Hugh Gordon Porteus

Hugh Gordon Porteus (1906-1993) was an influential reviewer of art and literature in the London of the 1930s, and also a poet.

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Incest in literature

There are various forms of incest in literature, from those with a compositional prose as well as those intended for less mature audiences.

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Jack Beeching

Jack Beeching (May 8, 1922 – December 27, 2001), born John Charles Stuart Beeching, was an English poet, novelist and nonfiction writer.

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Jacques Lacarrière

Jacques Lacarrière (2 December 1925 – 17 September 2005) was a French writer, born in Limoges.

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Jacquie Durrell

Jacqueline ("Jacquie") Sonia Durrell (née Wolfenden) (b. 1929, Manchester, United Kingdom) was the first wife of Gerald Durrell.

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Jalandhar

Jalandhar, formerly known as Jullundur in British India, is a city in the Doaba region of the northwestern Indian state of Punjab.

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James McMullan

James McMullan (born June 1934) is an illustrator and designer of theatrical posters.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.

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Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades.

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Jeremy Mallinson

Jeremy J. C. Mallinson OBE is a conservationist associated with the Durrell Wildlife Park and Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

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Joan Leigh Fermor

Joan Leigh Fermor (5 February 1912 – 4 June 2003) was an English photographer, and wife of author Patrick Leigh Fermor.

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Joanna Hines

Joanna Hines is a British author of fiction and non-fiction.

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John Gawsworth

Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 – 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories.

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John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. --> (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author.

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Jolan Chang

Jolan Chang (9 December 1917 - 25 April 2002) was a Chinese-Canadian sexologist and Taoist philosopher who wrote the luminary classics on Eastern Sexuality The Tao of Love and Sex and The Tao of the Loving Couple.

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Joseph Fouché

Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under First Consul Bonaparte, who later became Emperor Napoleon.

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Josh O'Connor

Josh O'Connor (born 20 May 1990) is a British actor.

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Judith (1966 film)

Judith is a 1966 drama film made by Command Productions, Cumulus Productions and Paramount Pictures.

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Justine (1969 film)

Justine (1969) is a drama film directed by George Cukor and Joseph Strick.

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Justine (Durrell novel)

Justine, published in 1957, is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's literary tetralogy, The Alexandria Quartet.

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Karen Blixen

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (née Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English.

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Kingdom of Redonda

The Kingdom of Redonda is the name for the micronation associated with the tiny uninhabited Caribbean island of Redonda.

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Kingsley Amis

Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher.

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Labyrinth

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek: Λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate, confusing structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

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Lake Mariout

Lake Mariout (بحيرة مريوط,, also spelled Maryut or Mariut, is a brackish lake in northern Egypt. The lake area covered 200 km² and had a navigable canal at the beginning of the 20th century, but at the beginning of the 21st century, it covers only about 50 km².

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Lawrence Durrell Collection

The Lawrence Durrell Collection is a special collection of books and periodicals by, about or associated with the novelist and poet Lawrence Durrell, donated to the British Library by Alan G. Thomas.

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Lawrence Samuel Durrell

Lawrence Samuel Durrell (23 September 1884 – 16 April 1928) was a British Indian subject and engineer, and is best remembered as the father of novelist Lawrence Durrell and naturalist Gerald Durrell.

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Le Livre de poche

Le Livre de Poche (literally "The Pocket Book") is the name of a collection of publications which first appeared on 9 February 1953 under the leadership of Henri Filipacchi and published by the Librairie générale française, a subsidiary of Hachette.

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Le Sphinx

Le Sphinx was a maison close (brothel) in Paris in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Liana Burgess

Liana Burgess (born Liliana Macellari, September 25, 1929 – December 3, 2007) was an Italian translator and literary agent who was the second wife of English writer Anthony Burgess.

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Lincoln Christ's Hospital School

Lincoln Christ's Hospital School is a state secondary school with academy status located on Wragby Road in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

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List of 20th-century writers

This is a partial list of 20th-century writers.

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List of American films of 1969

This is a list of American films released in 1969.

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List of authors by name: D

List of authors by name: A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z.

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List of Cannes Film Festival juries (Feature films)

Each year, prior to the beginning of each event, the Cannes Film Festival board of directors appoints the juries who hold sole responsibility for choosing which films will receive an award.

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List of compositions by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

This is a list of compositions by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1951–60)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (1981–90)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible – or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs – and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of Desert Island Discs episodes (2001–10)

The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs invites castaways to choose eight pieces of music, a book (in addition to the Bible - or a religious text appropriate to that person's beliefs - and the Complete Works of Shakespeare) and a luxury item that they would take to an imaginary desert island, where they will be marooned indefinitely.

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List of English writers (D-J)

List of English writers lists writers in English, born or raised in England (or who lived in England for a lengthy period), who already have Wikipedia pages.

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List of fiction works made into feature films (D–J)

This is a list of fiction works that have been made into feature films.

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List of fictional countries

This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

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List of non-fiction writers

The term non-fiction writer covers vast numbers of fields and writers.

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List of novels set in Crete

This is a list of notable novels set in Crete.

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List of Old Olavians

This is a List of notable Old Olavians, these being former pupils of St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School and its predecessors, St Olave's and St Saviour's.

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List of Old Wykehamists

Former pupils of Winchester College are known as Old Wykehamists, in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham.

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List of poets

This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets.

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List of travel books

Travel books have been written since Classical times.

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List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize

The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.

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List of years in poetry

This page gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order).

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Livia (novel)

Livia, or Buried Alive (1978), is the second volume in British author Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet, published from 1974 to 1985.

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Lord Byron in popular culture

English writer Lord Byron has been mentioned in numerous media.

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Louisa Durrell

Louisa Florence Durrell, born Louisa Florence Dixie (16 January 1886 – 24 January 1964), was an Anglo-Irish woman born in India during the British Raj.

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Loxwood

Loxwood is a small village and civil parish with several outlying settlements, including those at Alfold Bars, Gunshot Common, Flitchfold, Roundstreet Common, Drungewick Lane and Manor, and Wephurst Park, in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, within the Low Weald.

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Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora) (11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet.

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Margaret Durrell

Margaret "Margo" Isabel Mabel Durrell (4 May 1920 — 16 January 2007) was the younger sister of novelist Lawrence Durrell and elder sister of naturalist, author, and TV presenter Gerald Durrell, who lampoons her character in his Corfu Trilogy of novels: My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, and The Garden of the Gods.

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Marie Aspioti

Maria-Aspasia (Marie) Aspioti (29 September 1909 – 25 May 2000), was a distinguished Corfiote writer, playwright, poet, magazine publisher and cultural figure who influenced the literary and cultural life of post-war Corfu.

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Martin Seymour-Smith

Martin Roger Seymour-Smith (24 April 1928 – 1 July 1998) was a British poet, literary critic, biographer and astrologer.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 2001–3000

139 | 2139 Makharadze || 1970 MC || The Georgian city of Ozurgeti (formerly known as Makharadze) is the twin city of Genichesk, Ukraine.

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Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu

Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu (15 August 1915 – 23 June 1983) was a Tamil poet, editor, critic and publisher, who for many years played a significant part on the literary scenes of London and New York City.

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Michaël Abiteboul

Michaël Abiteboul is a French actor.

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Miron Grindea

Miron Grindea OBE (31 January 1909 – 18 November 1995) was a Romanian-born literary journalist and the editor of ADAM International Review, a literary magazine published for more than 50 years.

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Mohamed Hassanein Heikal

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (محمد حسنين هيكل‎; 23 September 1923 – 17 February 2016) was an Egyptian journalist.

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Monsieur (novel)

Monsieur, or The Prince of Darkness (1974), is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet. Published from 1974 to 1985, this sequence of five interrelated novels explore the lives of a group of Europeans prior to, during, and after World War II.

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Moral relativism

Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.

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Mountolive

Mountolive, published in 1958, is the third volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell.

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My Family and Other Animals

My Family and Other Animals (1956) is an autobiographical work by British naturalist Gerald Durrell.

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My Family and Other Animals (film)

My Family and Other Animals is a 2005 television film written by Simon Nye and directed by Sheree Folkson.

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Nanos Valaoritis

Ioannis (Nanos) Valaoritis (Ιωάννης (Νάνος) Βαλαωρίτης; born July 5, 1921)(22 October 2010), Eleftherotypia (in Greek), Retrieved November 1, 2010 is a Greek writer who has been widely published as a poet, novelist and playwright since 1939; his correspondence with George Seferis (Allilographia 1945-1968, Ypsilon, Athens 2004) has been a bestseller.

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Nina Rootes

Nina Rootes is a translator of French and Italian literature.

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Ninety-nine Novels

Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (Allison & Busby, 1984) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983.

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No New Land

No New Land is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 1991.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Novel sequence

A novel sequence is a set or series of novels which share common themes, characters, or settings, but where each novel has its own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence.

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November 7

This day marks the approximate midpoint of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and of spring in the Southern Hemisphere (starting the season at the September equinox).

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Obelisk Press

Obelisk Press was an English-language press based in Paris, France, which was founded by British publisher Jack Kahane in 1929.

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Olivia Manning

Olivia Mary Manning (2 March 1908 – 23 July 1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer.

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Olympia Press

Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebranded version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane.

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Oopali Operajita

Oopali Operajita (also spelt Oopalee Operajita), is a Senior Advisor to India's Parliamentary leaders and world leaders on Public Policy and International Affairs, an Environmental Hero, polymath and a virtuoso classical Odissi and Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer.

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Oswell Blakeston

Oswell Blakeston was the pseudonym of Henry Joseph Hasslacher (1907–1985), a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry, made some experimental films, and wrote extensively on film theory.

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Outremer

Outremer (outre-mer, meaning "overseas") was a general name used for the Crusader states; it originated after victories of Europeans in the First Crusade and was applied to the County of Edessa, the Principality of Antioch, the County of Tripoli, and especially the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Palgrave's Golden Treasury

The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861.

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Pancyprian Gymnasium

The Pancyprian Gymnasium (Παγκύπριο Γυμνάσιο) was founded in 1812 by Archbishop Kyprianos at a time when Cyprus was still under Ottoman rule.

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Panic Spring

Panic Spring is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1937 by Faber and Faber in Britain and Covici-Friede in the United States under the pseudonym Charles Norden.

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Patrick Leigh Fermor

Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011), also known as Paddy Fermor, was a British author, scholar, soldier and polyglot who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War.

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Patterson (radio series)

Patterson is a BBC radio sitcom about a hapless university lecturer.

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Paul Hogarth

Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA (born Arthur Paul Hoggarth) (4 October 1917 – 27 December 2001) was an English artist and illustrator.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Penguin Modern Poets

Penguin Modern Poets was a series of 27 poetry books published by Penguin Books in the 1960s and 1970s, each containing work by three contemporary poets (mostly but not exclusively British and American).

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Penguin poetry anthologies

The Penguin poetry anthologies, published by Penguin Books, have at times played the role of a 'third force' in British poetry, less literary than those from Faber and Faber, and less academic than those from Oxford University Press.

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Pentalogy

A pentalogy (from Greek πεντα- penta-, "five" and -λογία -logia, "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is explicitly divided into five parts.

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Peter Porter (poet)

Peter Neville Frederick Porter OAM (16 February 192923 April 2010) was a British-based Australian poet.

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Phallic architecture

Phallic architecture consciously or unconsciously creates a symbolic representation of the phallus.

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Pied Piper of Lovers

Pied Piper of Lovers, published in 1935, is Lawrence Durrell's first novel.

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Poetry London

Poetry London is a leading London-based literary periodical which publishes poetry, reviews and listings which is published three times a year.

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Pope Joan

Pope Joan, 855–857, (Ioannes Anglicus) was, according to popular legend, a woman who reigned as pope for a few years during the Middle Ages.

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Postmodern literature

Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.

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Praed Street

Praed Street (pronounced) is a street in London's Paddington district (now part of the City of Westminster), most notable for its Paddington Station.

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Provence

Provence (Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

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Quantum fiction

Quantum fiction is a literary genre that reflects modern experience of the material world and reality as influenced by quantum theory and new principles in quantum physics.

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Quincunx

A quincunx is a geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center.

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Quinx

Quinx, or The Ripper's Tale (1985), is the 5th and final volume in Lawrence Durrell's "quincunx" of novels, The Avignon Quintet, published from 1974 to 1985.

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Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short-story writer and poet.

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Rayner Heppenstall

John Rayner Heppenstall (27 July 1911 in Lockwood, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England – 23 May 1981 in Deal, Kent, England) was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.

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Reginald Horace Blyth

Reginald Horace Blyth (3 December 1898 – 28 October 1964) was an English author and devotee of Japanese culture.

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Rhodes

Rhodes (Ρόδος, Ródos) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands of Greece in terms of land area and also the island group's historical capital.

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Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet.

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Richard Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough

Richard Aldred Lumley, 12th Earl of Scarbrough (5 December 1932 – 23 March 2004), styled Viscount Lumley between 1945 and 1969, was an English nobleman.

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Richard Pine

Richard Pine (born 21 August 1949) is the author of critical works on the Irish playwright Brian Friel and the Anglo-Irish novelist Lawrence Durrell.

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Robert Graves

Robert Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985), also known as Robert von Ranke Graves, was an English poet, historical novelist, critic, and classicist.

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Robin Fedden

Henry Robin Romilly Fedden, CBE, (1908–77) was an English writer, diplomat and mountaineer.

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Roger Giroux

Roger Giroux (1925–1974) was a French poet.

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Sebastian (Durrell novel)

Sebastian, or Ruling Passions (1982), is the fourth volume in The Avignon Quintet series by British author Lawrence Durrell, which was published from 1974 to 1985.

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Shakespeare and Company (bookstore)

Shakespeare and Company is the name of two independent English-language bookstores that have existed on Paris's Left Bank.

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Sidi Bishr

Sidi Bishr (سيدي بشر) is a neighborhood in the Montaza District of Alexandria, Egypt.

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Simon Raven

Simon Arthur Noël Raven (28 December 1927 – 12 May 2001) was an English novelist, essayist, dramatist and raconteur who, in a writing career of forty years, caused controversy, amusement and offence.

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Sommières

Sommières is a commune in the Gard department in southern France, located at the border with the Hérault department It lies from Nîmes, from Montpellier.

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St Edmund's School Canterbury

St Edmund's School, Canterbury /ˈɛdməndz/ is an independent day and boarding school located in Canterbury, Kent, England and established in 1749.

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St Olave's Grammar School

St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School is a boys selective secondary school in Orpington, Greater London, England.

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St. Joseph's School, Darjeeling

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Stars and planetary systems in fiction

The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in many works of the science fiction genre.

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State University of New York at New Paltz

The State University of New York at New Paltz, known as SUNY New Paltz or New Paltz for short, is a public college in New Paltz, in the U.S. state of New York.

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Tales of Joujouka

Tales of Joujouka is a book by the Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri (1932–2000) containing eight stories featuring the legends, folklore and Sufi origins myths and rituals of the Master Musicians of Joujouka.

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Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1957 San Francisco, California) is an American novelist and a short story writer.

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Tanith Lee

Tanith Lee (19 September 1947 – 24 May 2015) was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy.

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Ted Patrick (editor)

Edwin Hill "Ted" Patrick (1901-1962) was the key American editor for ''Holiday Magazine'', an influential travel and literary magazine published by the Curtis Publishing Company.

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The Air-Conditioned Nightmare

The Air-Conditioned Nightmare is a memoir written by Henry Miller, first published in 1945, about his year-long road trip across the United States in 1939, following his return from nearly a decade living in Paris.

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The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960.

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The Avignon Quintet

The Avignon Quintet is a five-volume series of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1974 and 1985.

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The Black Book (Durrell novel)

The Black Book is a novel by Lawrence Durrell, published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press.

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The City (poem)

The City (Ἡ Πόλις) is an 1894 poem by Constantine Cavafy.

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The Colossus of Maroussi

The Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionist travelogue by Henry Miller which was first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco.

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The Durrells

The Durrells (also known as The Durrells in Corfu on American television) is a British comedy-drama series based on Gerald Durrell's three autobiographical books about his family's four years (1935–1939) on the Greek Island of Corfu, which began airing on 3 April 2016.

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The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse

The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950 was a poetry anthology edited by John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright, and first published in 1953 by Faber and Faber.

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The Fantastic Flying Journey

The Fantastic Flying Journey is a children's book written by Gerald Durrell.

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The Garden of the Gods

The Garden of the Gods (American title: Fauna and Family) (1978) by British naturalist and author Gerald Durrell (1925-1995) is the third book in his autobiographical "Corfu trilogy," following My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts, and Relatives.

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The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Philip Larkin.

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The Revolt of Aphrodite

The Revolt of Aphrodite consists of two novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published in 1968 and 1970.

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The Rosy Crucifixion

The Rosy Crucifixion, a trilogy consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928.

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The World at War

The World at War (1973–74) is a 26-episode British television documentary series chronicling the events of the Second World War.

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Theodore Stephanides

Theodore Stephanides (21 January 1896 - 13 April 1983) was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist.

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Tourmaline (novel)

Tourmaline (1963) is the fourth novel by Australian writer Randolph Stow.

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Travel literature

The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.

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Tropic of Cancer (novel)

Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller that has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature".

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View (magazine)

View was an American literary and art magazine published from 1940 to 1947 by artist and writer Charles Henri Ford, and writer and film critic Parker Tyler.

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Viking Press

Viking Press is an American publishing company now owned by Penguin Random House.

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Wilbur Smith

Wilbur Addison Smith (born 9 January 1933) is a South African novelist specialising in historical fiction about the international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries, seen from the viewpoints of both black and white families.

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William Wright (author)

William Connor Wright Jr. (October 22, 1930 – June 4, 2016) was an American author, editor and playwright.

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Wolfgang Zuckermann

Wolfgang Joachim Zuckermann (born 11 October 1922 in Berlin) has achieved renown in two careers.

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1912

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1912 in India

Events in the year 1912 in India.

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1912 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1912.

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1912 in poetry

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1912 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1912 in the United Kingdom.

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1932 in poetry

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1934 in poetry

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1935 in literature

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1937 in literature

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1938 in literature

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1943 in poetry

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1946 in poetry

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1948 in poetry

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1952 in poetry

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1953 in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1953.

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1953 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1953 in the United Kingdom.

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1957 in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1957.

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1957 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1957 in the United Kingdom.

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1958 in literature

This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1958.

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1958 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1958 in the United Kingdom.

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1960 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1960.

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1960 in poetry

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1960 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1960 in the United Kingdom.

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1963 in poetry

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1964 in poetry

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1966 in poetry

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1968 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1968.

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1968 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1968 in the United Kingdom.

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1970 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1970.

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1970 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1970 in the United Kingdom.

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1973 Cannes Film Festival

The 26th Cannes Film Festival was held from 10 to 25 May 1973.

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1973 in poetry

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1974 in literature

This article presents a list of the literary events and publications in 1974.

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1980 in poetry

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1986 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1986.

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1986 in poetry

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1990

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union amidst Perestroika.

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1990 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1990.

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1990 in poetry

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1990 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1990 in the United Kingdom.

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20th century in literature

Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).

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Charles Norden, Durrell, Lawrence, Durrellian, Lawrence George Durrell.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Durrell

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