Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Author:Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681371573
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2017-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

[1] ‘Work goes on tremendously,’ PLF had written to Joan in November.

[2] The book eventually expanded into a trilogy, the first volume being A Time of Gifts.

[3] The refrain ‘O saisons, ô châteaux’ occurs several times in Rimbaud’s poem Happiness.

[4] PLF means that he was asked to leave King’s School, Canterbury, after being discovered holding hands with a greengrocer’s daughter.

[5] In German-occupied Crete, during the summer of 1942.

[6] Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard (1922–95), author, translator and philosopher, who settled in Greece after the Second World War. He lived in a house he had restored near the small town of Limni on the island of Euboea.

[7] Gavin Maxwell, author of Ring of Bright Water (1960).

[8] Julian Jebb (1934–84), journalist, then living in Rome and teaching English. In 1967 he joined the BBC, where he co-produced a succession of documentaries, with a mission to put writers on-screen.

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