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The Queen’s Hotel as Hospitality’s Third Space: Lawrence Durrell’s “Black Book” and Michael de Larrabeiti’s “Borribles”

By James Gifford In 2010 I made a chilly October trip to London and stayed at the grand old Hotel Russell, No. 1 Russell Square,…

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Hotel Hellenism (?): Three Scenes from Henry Miller’s “The Colossus of Maroussi”

By Athanasios Dimakis Henry Miller’s 1941 The Colossus of Maroussi, an impressionist travelogue that has become a classic in travel literature, features some scant hotel…

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The Grande Albergo Delle Rose in Lawrence Durrell’s “Reflections on a Marine Venus”: “desolate corridors, chipped marquetry, smashed fittings”

by Athanasios Dimakis The first chapter of Lawrence Durrell’s Reflections on a Marine Venus: A Companion to the Landscape of Rhodes (1953) presents readers with…

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The Queen’s Hotel as Hospitality’s Third Space: Lawrence Durrell’s “Black Book” and Michael de Larrabeiti’s “Borribles”

Hotel Hellenism (?): Three Scenes from Henry Miller’s “The Colossus of Maroussi”

The Grande Albergo Delle Rose in Lawrence Durrell’s “Reflections on a Marine Venus”: “desolate corridors, chipped marquetry, smashed fittings”

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The Queen’s Hotel as Hospitality’s Third Space: Lawrence Durrell’s “Black Book” and Michael de Larrabeiti’s “Borribles”

Hotel Hellenism (?): Three Scenes from Henry Miller’s “The Colossus of Maroussi”

The Grande Albergo Delle Rose in Lawrence Durrell’s “Reflections on a Marine Venus”: “desolate corridors, chipped marquetry, smashed fittings”

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