Esprit de Corps & Stiff Upper Lip

Lawrence Durrell needs no introduction as the celebrated author of the superb "Alexandria Quartet." Yet those already familiar with the transcendent novels, Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea, and with the superlative travel writing found in Bitter Lemons, Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, may have missed the enchanting follies perpetrated by Mr. Durrell in these two uproarious books, now combined for the first time in one ... volume. In each of these twenty jeux d'esprit the author draws upon his intimate knowledge of life in the "Dip Corps" to regale his readers with the hazards and highjinks of Life among the Diplomats.