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Gerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals

Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals review, recensie en informatie over de autobiografie uit 1956 en deel 1 van de Korfoe trilogie van de Engelse schrijver. Op 2 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Penguin Classics de heruitgave van de autobiografie en Corfu Trilogy 1 van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver en natuuronderzoeker, Gerald Durrell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. De Nederlandse vertaling Mijn familie & andere beesten is op dit moment alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals review, recensie en informatie

  • “Gerald Durrell was magic.” (Sir David Attenborough)
  • “When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light.” (Kathryn Hughes, Guardian)

Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals

My Family and Other Animals

Corfu Trilogy 1

  • Auteur: Gerald Durrell (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: autobiografie uit 1956
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Classics
  • Verschijnt: 2 januari 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon

Flaptekst van deel 1 van autobiografie van Gerald Durrell

“Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas.” (Gerald Durrell)

It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of My Family and Other Animals Corfu Trilogy 1 and first edition autobiography from Gerald DurrellBournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie – as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.

Gerald Durrell Birds, Beasts, and Relatives review en recensieGerald Durrell – Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
Corfu trilogy 2
The Durrell clan’s escapades on their Greek island home resume with the second volume of the Corfu Trilogy. Budding zoologist Gerald continues to explore the natural wonders around him, enjoying a night fishing trip, receiving a donkey as a birthday present and accidentally bringing a bear home for tea…lees verder >

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Autobiografieën Memoires, Engelse schrijvers, Griekenland

Gerald Durrell – Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Gerald Durrell Birds, Beasts, and Relatives review, recensie en informatie over de autobiografie uit 1969 en deel 2 van de Korfoe trilogie van de Engelse schrijver. Op 2 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Penguin Classics de heruitgave van de autobiografie en Corfu Trilogy 2 van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver en natuuronderzoeker, Gerald Durrell. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is op dit moment geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Gerald Durrell Birds, Beasts, and Relatives review, recensie en informatie

  • “A lot of frolic, fun and charming ribaldry, as well as the warm feeling of having been transported to a lovely spot where worry is unknown and anything is believable.” (The New York Times)
  • “Delightful, charming, funny.” (The Times)

Gerald Durrell Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Corfu Trilogy 2

  • Auteur: Gerald Durrell (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: autobiografie uit 1969
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Classics
  • Verschijnt: 2 januari 2025
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon 

Flaptekst van deel 2 van autobiografie van Gerald Durrell

Gerald Durrell’s beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time.

The Durrell clan’s escapades on their Greek island home resume with the second volume of the Corfu Trilogy. Budding zoologist Birds, Beasts, and Relatives Gerald Durrell autobiography first edition from 1969Gerald continues to explore the natural wonders around him, enjoying a night fishing trip, receiving a donkey as a birthday present and accidentally bringing a bear home for tea. Here too are more stories of the eccentric creatures he calls his family, including Margo’s ill-advised foray into spiritualism and what becomes known as ‘Mother’s Great Romance’. Ending as the Second World War is declared, Birds, Beasts and Relatives is an enchanting return to a magical place.

Gerald Durrell My Family and Other Animals review en recensieGerald Durrell – My Family and Other Animals
Corfu trilogy 1
It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive ‘like a troupe of medieval tumblers’ on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell’s beloved portrayal of his chaotic family – beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie…lees verder >

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