I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

Novelist, poet, dramatist and travel writer                          

Selected Works:

Pied Piper of Lovers - 1935
Panic Spring, under the pseudonym Charles Norden - 1937
The Black Book - 1938
Cefalu - 1947
The Dark Labyrinth - 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

Travel:

Prospero's Cell: A guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra - Corfu - 1945; republished 2000
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 - 1931
Ten Poems - 1932
Transition: Poems - 1934
A Private Country - 1943
Cities, Plains and People - 1946
On Seeming to Presume - 1948
Selected Poems: 1953–1963
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

Humor:

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
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 - 1982
"Letters to T. S. Eliot." - 1987 Twentieth Century Literature vol. 33 no. 3 pp. 348-58.
The Durrell-Miller Letters: 1935–80 - 1988 edited by Ian S. MacNiven
Letters to Jean Fanchette - 1988 edited by Jean Fanchette                          

Mother Louisa
Father Lawrence Samuel Durrell
First wife,  Nancy Isobel Myers, the first of four marriages.                          

Resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan.