Durrell's best-known work fused Western notions of time and space with Eastern metaphysics.

Very little has been written about Durrell's work before the Second World War. With A Smile in His Mind's Eye, Ray Morrison seeks to redress this neglect.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for Durrell's Works
1 The Taste of Elsewhere
2 Quaint Fragments and Literary Horizons
3 Pied Piper of Lovers: The Boy from India and the Faun
4 Panic Spring: The Romance of the Will and Its Music
5 The Black Book: The Journey to the Land 'Where God Is a Yellow Man'
6 Heraldic Side-Effects
7 The Suchness of the Early Durrell
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Ray Morrison is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Carleton University.