Bibliography of Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell was a prolific writer. Here is a more complete bibliography of his works:

• Novels
  • Pied Piper of Lovers (1935)
  • Panic Spring, under the pseudonym Charles Norden (1937)
  • The Black Book (1938; republished in the UK on 1 January 1977 by Faber and Faber)
  • Cefalu (1947; republished as The Dark Labyrinth in 1958)
  • White Eagles Over Serbia (1957)
  • The Alexandria Quartet (1962)
  • Justine (1957)
  • Balthazar (1958)
  • Mountolive (1958)
  • Clea (1960)
  • The Revolt of Aphrodite (1974)
  • Tunc (1968)
  • Nunquam (1970)
  • The Avignon Quintet (1992)
  • Monsieur: or, The Prince of Darkness (1974)
  • Livia: or, Buried Alive (1978)
  • Constance: or, Solitary Practices (1982)
  • Sebastian: or, Ruling Passions (1983)
  • Quinx: or, The Ripper's Tale (1985)
  • Judith (2012, written 1962-c. 1966)
• Travel
  • Prospero's Cell: A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra [Corfu] (1945; republished 2000) (ISBN 0-571-20165-2)
  • Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953)
  • Bitter Lemons (1957; republished as Bitter Lemons of Cyprus 2001)
  • Blue Thirst (1975)
  • Sicilian Carousel (1977)
  • The Greek Islands (1978)
  • Caesar's Vast Ghost (1990)
• Poetry
  • Quaint Fragments: Poems Written between the Ages of Sixteen and Nineteen (1931)
  • Ten Poems (1932)
  • Transition: Poems (1934)
  • A Private Country (1943)
  • Cities, Plains and People (1946)
  • On Seeming to Presume (1948)
  • The Poetry of Lawrence Durrell (1962)
  • Selected Poems: 1953–1963 Edited by Alan Ross (1964)
  • The Ikons (1966)
  • The Suchness of the Old Boy (1972)
  • Collected Poems: 1931–1974 Edited by James A. Brigham (1980)
  • Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell Edited by Peter Porter (2006)
• Drama
  • Bromo Bombastes, under the pseudonym Gaffer Peeslake (1933)
  • Sappho: A Play in Verse (1950)
  • An Irish Faustus: A Morality in Nine Scenes (1963)
  • Acte (1964)
• Humour
  • Esprit de Corps (1957)
  • Stiff Upper Lip (1958)
  • Sauve Qui Peut (1966)
  • Antrobus Complete (1985), a collection of short stories, previously published in various magazines, about life in the diplomatic corps.
• Letters and essays
  • A Key to Modern British Poetry (1952)
  • Art & Outrage: A Correspondence About Henry Miller ** Between Alfred Perles and Lawrence Durrell (1959)
  • Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller: A Private Correspondence (1962) edited by George Wickes
  • Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel (1969) edited by Alan G. Thomas
  • Literary Lifelines: The Richard Aldington—Lawrence ** Durrell Correspondence (1981) edited by Ian S. MacNiven and Harry T. Moore
  • A Smile in the Mind's Eye (1980)
  • "Letters to T. S. Eliot" (1987) Twentieth Century Literature Vol. 33, No. 3 pp. 348–358.
  • The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935–80 (1988), edited by Ian S. MacNiven
  • Letters to Jean Fanchette (1988), edited by Jean Fanchette
  • From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings (2015), edited by James Gifford
• Editing and translating
  • Six Poems From the Greek of Sikelianós and Seféris (1946), translated by Durrell
  • The King of Asine and Other Poems (1948), by George Seferis and translated by Durrell, Bernard Spencer, and Nanos Valaoritis
  • The Curious History of Pope Joan (1954; revised 1960), by Emmanuel Roídes and translated by Durrell
  • The Best of Henry Miller (1960), edited by Durrell
  • New Poems 1963: A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1963), edited by Durrell
  • Wordsworth; Selected by Lawrence Durrell (1973), edited by Durrell

Acknowledgments

Lawrence Durrell on Wikipedia