Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness.

DURRELL, Lawrence.

Item Number: 125161

London: Faber and Faber, 1974.

First edition of this novel by the author of the Alexandria Quartet. Octavo, original boards. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket illustration by David Gentleman.

Monsieur is the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet and is based on a metafictional narrative in five major sections, each with a competing narrator. It was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974.