Peter comes from Oxford as a tutor and is replaced by Mr. Young Gerry must be educated so there is George, who practices local dances and fencing during lessons, which come out on the side there is Theodore, a scientist and Gerry's source of information the Belgian consul, who shoots cats, takes over French. Taken under the wing of Spiro, who had visited America, they settle in the pink villa, move to a yellow one, land in a white one they have a symptom-dwelling maid they acquire a variety of friends and guests they succumb to the insidious magic of an island. For this is the account of a stay on Corfu, when he was a ten year old, and his Mother, gentle, fluttering and sometimes firm, Larry, literary-minded and a constant critic, Leslie, dedicated to his guns, and Margo, whose romances are things of sharpest emotion, are fixed, if vehement, orbits in his pursuit of everything that walks, flies, crawls, swims. Durrell's department of natural history has found him a devoted audience which has come to expect his animals to be as entertaining as his humans and here is the ultimate reward.
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