Lawrence Durrell

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1969
  • Latest Book:
    June 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Alexandria Quartet

1 - Justine (Dec-1981)
2 - Balthazar (Dec-1981)
3 - Mountolive (Jan-1981)
4 - Clea (Dec-1981)

The Avignon Quintet

1 - Monsieur: Or, The Prince of Darkness (Jan-1975)
2 - Livia: Or, Buried Alive (Apr-1979)
3 - Constance, or Solitary Practices (Nov-1982)
4 - Sebastian (Apr-1984)
5 - Quinx (Sep-1985)

Related Books

1 - Tunc (Nov-1969)
2 - Nunquam (Mar-1970)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Tunc

    Related Books - 1

  • Nunquam

    Related Books - 2

    The brilliant scientist, Felix Charlock, is summoned from a madhouse by a supremely powerful international corporation. His assignment -- to help create an exact, functioning duplicate of lolanthe, the famous movie star, now dead, with whom Julian ...

  • Vega and Other Poems

  • Pope Joan

    "First published in the 1950s, this modern masterpiece is Lawrence Durrell's translation and adaptation of Emmanuel Royidis's classic ""Papissa Joanna""--the story of history's only female pope. The story's source is a ninth-century legend: a girl di...

  • Monsieur: Or, The Prince of Darkness

    The Avignon Quintet - 1

    A novel of ideas, action, mystery, of human aspiration and self-destruction, set in Avignon. The moments of happiness experienced by the diplomat Piers de Nogaret, his sister Sylvie, and Bruce, the earnest English doctor, are fleeting in the face of ...

  • Sicilian Carousel

    Although Durrell spent much of his life beside the Mediterranean, he wrote relatively little about Italy; it was always somewhere that he was passing through on the way to somewhere else. Sicilian Carousel is his only piece of extended writing on the...

  • Prospero's Cell

  • Reflections Marin

    Reflections on a Marine Venus explores life on a magical and enchanting island (Rhodes) right after World War II. It is about Greece when it was a demi-paradise. But it is also about the distillation of life and experience, the savoring of all the ex...

  • The Dark Labyrinth



  • Livia: Or, Buried Alive

    The Avignon Quintet - 2

  • Collected Poems, 1931-1974

  • Mountolive

    Alexandria Quartet - 3

    Mountolive is a novel of vertiginous disclosures, in which the betrayer and the betrayed share secret alliances and an adulterous marriage turns out to be a vehicle for the explosive passions of the modern Middle East. This book was digitized an...

  • Balthazar

    Alexandria Quartet - 2

    Balthazar, is the second volume of Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, set in Alexandria, Egypt, during the 1940s. The events of each lush and sensuous novel are seen through the eyes of the central character L.G. Darley, who observes the interactions ...

  • Clea

    Alexandria Quartet - 4

    The magnificent final volume of one of the most widely acclaimed fictional masterpieces of the postwar era.

    Few books have been awaited as eagerly as Clea, the sensuous and electrically suspenseful novel that resolves the enigmas of the Alex...

  • Justine

    Alexandria Quartet - 1

    Alexandria - a thousand dust-tormented streets. Flies and beggars own it today, and those who enjoy an intermediate existence in between. Five races, five languages, a dozen creeds - but there are more than five sexes. The sexual provender which ...

  • Constance, or Solitary Practices

    The Avignon Quintet - 3

    With the Second World War in full fury, Constance must explore the psyche of a mad world in order to save herself and those closest to her in the third volume of the Avignon Quintet Durrell’s beautiful Avignon Quintet continues with this harrowi...

  • Sebastian

    The Avignon Quintet - 4

    With Europe reduced to rubble after the Second World War, Constance must seek knowledge beyond the modern in order to heal her patientsand herself. In Durrell's fourth installment of the Avignon Quintet, Constance returns to Europe after the end ...

  • Quinx

    The Avignon Quintet - 5

    In the final volume of the Avignon Quintet, Aubrey Blanford returns home to Avignon at the end of World War II to be joined by his beloved Constance, Sylvie, Constance's former patient and current lover, and Lord Galen and the Prince...

  • Bitter Lemons

    In Bitter Lemons, Durrell tells the perceptive, often humorous, story of his experiences on Cyprus between 1953 and 1956-first as a visitor, then as a householder and teacher, and finally as Press Advisor to a government coping with armed rebellion. ...



  • White Eagles Over Serbia

    Â"A spellbinder . . . a distinguished and desperately exciting book.”  -- Daily Telegraph (London)Methuen, a seasoned survivor of countless spy missions thrust upon him by the Old Etonians running the British Secret Service, feels he needs ...

  • Provence

    Durrel's Provence is saturated with the spirits of civilizations past. Durrell wanders through the countryside and the marketplace and among the people, listening to the echos of the battles of Roman generals like Caesar and Agrippa, the love of Pet...

  • Antrobus Complete

    The British Foreign Office is a timeless institution. Antrobus is the embodiment of everything that makes it what it is. His tales of diplomatic misadventure, accompanied by memorable and witty drawings, make a collection to cherish, for as long as t...

  • The Avignon Quintet

    Published between 1974 and1985, the five books that make up the Avignon Quintet are another monumental achievement by one of the most inventive and acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century. Beginning in the years leading up to the Second World Wa...

  • The Best of Antrobus

    The finest of Lawrence Durrell’s classic short stories of diplomatic mischief Dark is the day when culture comes to Sczbog. The capital of Vulgaria, nestled snugly behind the Iron Curtain, has long been devoid of higher thought, and that is the ...

  • The Black Book

    As over-the-top as it is inventive, Durrell’s breakthrough novel is a series of sordid vignettes drawn from the lives of decadent artists, doomed bohemians, and continental rascals inhabiting a shabby London hotel, narrated in turns by the unforget...

  • Esprit de Corps

    Eleven charming, delicate sketches of diplomatic life in service of the crown After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over old...

  • Sauve Qui Peut

    For the British delegation to Vulgaria, no problem is too small to become a crisis in this lively story collection of diplomatic misadventure In the words of Antrobus, master diplomat in the King’s service, diplomacy was once “a quiet and rest...

  • Stiff Upper Lip

    In this boisterous story collection, mischief abounds in the quiet corners of the British Empire on which the sun never sets As the overseer of the kitchen at the British embassy in Vulgaria, De Mandeville has begun to abuse his power. He subjects...

  • Judith

    A breathtaking novel of passion and politics, set in the hotbed of Palestine in the 1940s, by a master of twentieth-century fiction It is the eve of Britain’s withdrawal from Palestine in 1948, a moment that will mark the beginning of a new Isra...



  • The Revolt of Aphrodite

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lawrence Durrell has published 30 books.

Lawrence Durrell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Revolt of Aphrodite, was published in June 2021.

The first book by Lawrence Durrell, Tunc, was published in November 1969.

Yes. Lawrence Durrell has 3 series.
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