Male : Novelist & Poet. Lived in France

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Julundur, India

Date of Birth : 1912 Date of Death : 1990 Age : 78

Pseudonyms : Charles Norden

Other Work : Worked for the Foreign Office in Athens, Cairo, Alexandria, Belgrade & Cyprus

Education : Darjeeling & Canterbury

1931-1940
Quaint Fragment (1931 Cecil Press)
Ten Poems (1932 Caduceus Press)
Bromo Bombasts (1933 Caduceus Press) - Parody of Shaw's "Black Girl". Ltd Ed 100
Transition (1934 Caduceus Press)
Pied Piper of Lovers (1935 Cassell) - d/w by Nancy Myers (Durrell's 1st wife)
Panic Spring (1937 Faber) (1937 Covici-Friede) - As Charles Norden
The Black Book (1938 Obelisk Press, Paris) (1960 Dutton) (1973 Faber)

1941-1950
A Private Country (1943 Faber)
Cities, Plains and People (1945 Faber)
Prospero's Cell (1945 Faber) (1960 Dutton) (1975 Faber New Ed)
Cefalu (1947 Editions Poetry) (in US as "The Dark Labyrinth" - Ace, NY 1958)
On Seeming to Presume (1948 Faber)
Sappho (1950 Faber) (1958 Dutton)

1951-1955
Key to Modern Poetry (1952 Peter Nevill) - lectures
A Key to Modern British Poetry (1952 Oklahoma Press) - same as above
Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953 Faber) (1960 Dutton)
(Trans) Emmanuel Royidis's Pope Joan (1954 Derek Verschoyle 12/6) (1961 Dutton)
The Tree of Idleness : New Poems (1955 Faber 8/6)

1956-1960
Selected Poems (1956 Faber 10/6) (1956 Grove Press)
Justine (1957 Faber 15/-) (1957 Dutton) - Alexandria Quartet
[Filmed in 1969]
White Eagles Over Serbia (1957 Faber) (1957 Criterion)
Espirit de Corps (1957 Faber) (1958 Dutton)
Bitter Lemons (1957 Faber) (1958 Dutton)
Stiff Upper Lip (1958 Faber) (1959 Dutton) - Nicolas Bentley
Balthazar (1958 Faber) (1958 Dutton) - Alexandria Quartet
Mountolive (1958 Faber) (1959 Dutton) - Alexandria Quartet
Art and Outrage : Correspondence between Durrell, Henry Miller & Alfred Perles
(1959 Putnam) (1960 Dutton)
(Ed) A Henry Miller Reader (1959 New Directions) (1960 Heinemann)
Clea (1960 Faber) (1960 Dutton) - Alexandria Quartet
Collected Poems (1960 Faber) (1960 Dutton)

1961-1970
The Dark Labyrinth (1961 Faber)
The Alexandria Quartet (1962 Faber) (1962 Dutton) - one vol edition
(In) Penguin Modern Poets 1 (1962)
Beccafico Le Becfigue (1963 La Licorne, France)
An Irish Faustus (1963 Faber) (1964 Dutton) (1987 Delos Press. Rev Ed - 75 signed)
(Ed) New Poems 1963 : A PEN Anthology (1963 Hutchinson)
Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller : A Private Correspondence (1963 Faber)
La Descente du Styx (1964 La Murene, France) - Ltd Ed 250 signed
Selected Poems 1935-1963 (1964 Faber)
Acte (1965 Faber) (1965 Dutton)
The Ikons (1966 Faber) (1967 Dutton)
Sauve qui Peut (1966 Faber) (1967 Dutton) - Nicolas Bentley
Tunc (1968 Faber) (1968 Dutton)
In Arcadia (1968 Turret Books) - 100 signed and by Wallace Southam, the composer
Spirit of Place (1969 Faber) (1969 Dutton) - Essays ed by Alan G Thomas
Nunquam (1970 Faber) (1970 Dutton)
Lawrence Durrell Talks to Osric Allen (nd. No Place, no publisher. Printed 1970 York)
- pamphlet of c12 copies ?

1971-1975
The Red Limbo Lingo (1971 Faber) - Ltd Ed 600
The Big Supposer (1972 Pierre Belfond, Paris) (1973 Abelard-Schuman) - A Dialogue with Marc Alyn
On the Suchness of the Old Boy (1972 Turret) - Verse. Sappho Durrell. 226 signed
Vega and Other Poems (1973 Faber)
(Ed) Wordsworth (1973 Penguin)
The Plant-Magic Man (1973 US) - M Wilson. 200 numbered & signed copies
Lifelines (1974 Tregarth Press) - Ltd Ed 15 signed
Lifelines : Four Poems (1974 Tragara)
The Best of Antrobus (1974 Faber)
The Revolt of Aphrodite (1974 Faber) - one vol ed of Tunc & Nunquam
Monsieur, or The Prince of Darkness (1974 Faber) (1974 Viking) - JAMES TAIT MEMORIAL PRIZE

1976-1980
Blue Thirst (1975 US) - 250 signed numbered copies
Sicilian Carousel (1977 Faber) (1977 Viking)
The Greek Islands (1978 Faber) (1978 Viking)
Livia, or Buried Alive (1978 Faber) (1979 Viking)
Collected Poems 1931-1974 (1980 Faber) (1980 Viking)
A Smile in the Mind's Eye (1980 Wildwood House) - Essay

After 1981
Literary Lifelines : The Richard Aldington / Lawrence Durrell Correspondence
(1981 Faber) (1981 Viking)
Constance, or Solitary Practices (1982 Faber £7.95) (1982 Viking)
Sebastian, or Ruling Passions (1983 Faber) (1984 Viking)
Quinx, or the Ripper's Tale (1985 Faber) (1985 Viking)
Antrobus Complete (1985 Faber Faber)
The Durrell/Miller Letters (1988 Faber) (1988 Viking)
Lawrence Durrell's Double Concerto (1990 Delos Press) - with Robin Cook
Caesar's Vast Ghost : Aspects of Provence (1990 Faber)
The Avignon Quintet (1992 Faber)

READING
S S Fraser : Lawrence Durrell - A Study (1968 Faber) - contains a bibliography by Alan G Thomas
Gordon Bowker : Through the Dark Labyrinth - A Biography of Lawrence Durrell
(1996 Sinclair Stevenson £25)
Ian MacNiven : Lawrence Durrell - A Biography (1998 Faber £25)