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Philhellene’s progress: The writing of Patrick Leigh Fermor
As you know I trawl the net for Paddy related material to create the best online source of information about PLF and his friends and associates. Some of you may have come across this essay that...
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Los violines de Patrick Leigh Fermor
Finding online information about Paddy’s only novel (some call it a novella), The Violins of Saint-Jacques: A Tale of the Antilles, is very difficult. First published in 1953, the novel set in the...
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A Traveler’s Tale: On Patrick Leigh Fermor
by Wes Davis First published in The Nation, December 2010 At a Chelsea-to-Richmond boating party held sometime in the early 1950s, the Duchess of Devonshire, then a beautiful young woman of 30, met a...
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Scholar in the wilds – a profile of Patrick Leigh Fermor
A comprehensive profile of Patrick Leigh Fermor. By James Campbell. First published in The Guardian 9 April 2005 As a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor walked through Europe to Turkey, sleeping in...
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The Violins of Saint-Jacques – Malcolm Williamson opera review
Malcolm Williamson turned Paddy’s 1953 novella, The Violins of Saint-Jacques, into an opera. Here is a snippet from The Musical Times review Vol. 108, No. 1487, Jan., 1967. Related article: Los...
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The only survivor of the devastating volcanic eruption of Mount Pelée
A nice short piece by Simon Winchester, which, if true, adds something to our knowledge around Paddy’s story in The Violins of Saint Jacques. The Violins of St Jacques, Patrick Leigh Fermor. I think...
View ArticleThe Violins of Saint-Jacques Is a Lush Portrait of a Lost World
It’s not often that we get to see anything about Paddy’s one and only novel so I thought that you might like to see this recent review by Joe Blessing. Why not take some time to take a look at some of...
View ArticleMount Pelée, the La Soufrière volcano and The Violins of Saint-Jacques
The news this week of an eruption of the La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, made me think about Paddy’s novel (and second book) The Violins of Saint-Jacques published in...
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