Lawrence Durrell

Justine

1957 · Lawrence Durrell

Justine, published in 1957, is the first novel in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. The story is set in Alexandria during the 1930s and 1940s…

Balthazar

1958 · Lawrence Durrell

Balthazar is the second novel in Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, published in 1958. It begins with the narrator from Justine living on a Greek…

Mountolive

1958 · Lawrence Durrell

The 1958 novel by Lawrence Durrell presents characters viewed through a political lens as the world moves toward a second world war. The story…

Clea

1960 · Lawrence Durrell

Clea is the fourth and culminating novel in the Alexandria Quartet, a 1960 novel by Lawrence Durrell. Past episodes are raked over again with a new…

Monsieur

1974 · Lawrence Durrell

Three lovers and comrades seek happiness in a dilapidated chateau near Avignon, a place steeped in history, but must contend with madness, eerie…

Livia

1978 · Lawrence Durrell

Livia: Or Buried Alive is the second novel in Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet, published in 1978. The series, which spans from 1974 to 1985,…

Constance, or, Solitary practices

1982 · Lawrence Durrell

Constance, or Solitary Practices is the central novel in Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet, published between 1974 and 1985. It was nominated…

Sebastian

1983 · Lawrence Durrell

Sebastian, or Ruling Passions, is the fourth book in The Avignon Quintet series by British author Lawrence Durrell. Published in 1983, the novel…

Quinx, or, The ripper's tale

1985 · Lawrence Durrell

Aubrey Blanford returns to Avignon after World War II, a time of endings and beginnings. He is joined by Rob Sutcliffe and Constance, a psychoanalyst…