num_pages: 212
description: Durrell's third work, the original angry young novel, was first published by his good friend and long-time correspondent Henry Miller as the first title in the short-lived Villa Seurat imprint of the Paris-based Obelisk Press. Unpublishable by the more staid (and censored) presses across the Channel, no work better captures the anguish and death-consciousness of a Europe about to plunge, once again, into cataclysmic war and destruction. The Black Book first saw print in 1938.
language: English
title: The Black Book
titlecomplete: The Black Book
genres: 20th Century, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Banned Books, Fiction
ratings_count: 626
publisher: Olympia Press