Lose yourself in bestselling author Lawrence Durrell's sublime novel about a group of English tourists trapped in the minotaur's labyrinth on Crete ...
'Spellbinding ... A fine storyteller.' Guardian
'Superb ... Quite simply a lovely work of art.' New York Times
A group of English tourists have come ashore from their cruise ship to explore the island of
Crete. This motley crew - including a painter, spiritualist, spinster, soldier, convalescent, and elderly couple - are holidaying to seek respite from a broken post-war world. But their journey reaches a disastrous climax when they visit a cave reputed to be the
legendary labyrinth of the minotaur, and become trapped within ...
Set in the glorious
Mediterranean landscapes which
Lawrence Durrell so famously evoked in his travel writing and novels,
The Dark Labyrinth is a morality tale unlike any other. Artfully blending horror and humour, comedy and tragedy, witty allegory and profound philosophy, it is a sublime novel, as refreshing today as it was decades ago.
'Superb, not only in the great passages of poetical description but also [the] casual wit and the brilliance of comment.'
Observer
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The Dark Labyrinth
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ClassicsIndex
LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Argument
- Ariadne’s Thread
- Portraits
- The Voyage Out
- The Medium
- The Labyrinth
- The Cefalû Road
- The City in the Rock
- The Enemy’s Grave
- In the Darkness
- At the Monastery
- Campion
- The Roof of the World
- At Cefalû
- Author’s Note
- About the Author
- Copyright
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