Lawrence Durrell: 40 books

With Europe reduced to rubble after the Second World War, Constance must seek knowledge beyond the modern in order to heal her patients—and herself.   In Durrell’s fourth installment of the Avignon Quintet, Constance returns to Europe after the end of World War II. A Freudian analyst,...

A desperate scientist’s mastery of technology may save him—or be his undoing—in this follow-up to Tunc by the New York Times–bestselling literary master.   The ominous and compelling sequel to Durrell’s Tunc finds gifted inventor Felix Charlock called upon by the sinister...

Who will survive the Labyrinth of Crete? A group of English cruise-ship tourists debark to visit the isle of Crete’s famed labyrinth, the City in the Rock. The motley gathering includes a painter, a poet, a soldier, an elderly married couple, a medium, a convalescent girl, and the mysterious...

An idealistic inventor is seduced by a mysterious firm in this Faustian novel by the “virtuoso” author of Justine (The New York Times).   Felix Charlock’s scientific genius is unrivaled—and so is his very special invention. So special, in fact, that a shadowy and enigmatic international...

A bilingual edition of the most famous of Henri Michaux's poetry collections, now in a new translation from the French. The figure of Plume preoccupied the great Belgian poet Henri Michaux throughout his career. Plume, meaning feather or pen, is a character who drifts from one thing to another,...

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 restful trade carried on in soothing inanity among...

The celebrated author of the Alexandria Quartet offers a collection of comic tales about the British Empire’s colonial diplomats.   As the overseer of the kitchen at the British embassy in Vulgaria, De Mandeville has begun to abuse his power. He subjects the King’s guests to a blistering...

Pela primeira vez em Portugal, a edição reunida e revista pelo autor, em 1962, dos quatro livros que compõem O Quarteto de Alexandria - Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive e Clea. Os quatro romances exploram a sociedade daquela cidade poliglota e cosmopolita, repleta de intrigas, mistério e sensualidade,...

Os quatro romances que comp?em O Quarteto de Alexandria - Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive e Clea - exploram a sociedade daquela cidade poliglota e cosmopolita, repleta de intrigas, misterio e sensualidade, retomando genericamente uma mesma historia sob diferentes pontos de vista, acrescentando e refazendo...

Os quatro romances que comp?em O Quarteto de Alexandria - Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive e Clea - exploram a sociedade daquela cidade poliglota e cosmopolita, repleta de intrigas, misterio e sensualidade, retomando genericamente uma mesma historia sob diferentes pontos de vista, acrescentando e refazendo...

Intriga, mistério e sensualidade fazem deste Quarteto de Alexandria uma magistral obra de culto e um dos grandes clássicos da literatura do século XX. Este é o terceiro livro.Os quatro romances que compõem O Quarteto de Alexandria – Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive e Clea – exploram a sociedade...

O último volume em formato de bolso desta magistral obra de culto que é um dos grandes clássicos da literatura do século XX.Intriga, mistério e sensualidade na cosmopolita e poliglota cidade de Alexandria no tempo da Segunda Guerra Mundial.Os quatro romances que compõem O Quarteto de Alexandria...