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Feb 11, 1915 — Jun 10, 2011· 96 yrs

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Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977).

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It was the Road which caused the trouble.

— from The Broken Road

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Three Letters from the Andes

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The Seven Deadly Sins

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The drunken sisters. Apollo challenges The Three Fates to a life-and-death battle of wits, but despite their taste for liquor, the sisters win the wager. Bernice. A convicted financial felon returns from prison and finds counsel in the guise of a murderer-turned-housekeeper. The wreck on the 5:25. Mother and daughter warily sew and converse in their living room while a strangely familiar man watches through the window from the shadows of their yard. A ringing of doorbells. A mother-daughter team of con-artists target a wheel chair-bound widow who, wise to their game, concocts a cunning scheme of her own. In Shakespeare and the Bible. A former madam confronts her former client and soon-to-be nephew-in-law, knowing the match may be threatened by his dangerous temper. Someone from Assisi. A friar with a lurid past seeks forgiveness from his former lover. Cement hands. A lively scheme to expose the greedy behavior of her fiance holds a young woman's future--and afternoon tea--in the balance.

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A Time to Keep Silence

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Description of PLF's sojourn in various monasteries where he spent time as a guest so he could enjoy the privacy and silence to write.

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