In reviewing "Clea" in 1960, Orville Prescott wrote in The New York Times: "Even those who are not struck all of a heap by Lawrence Durrell's 'Alexandria Quartet' must grant that these four novels comprise a remarkably ambitious fictional project written with bravura skill."

These novels comprised the canon of an author often compared to Jane Austen, C. S. Forester and other British authors central to the English literature canon.

The novels comprising the trilogy are:

Non-traditional library resources such as dime novels, storypapers and nickel weeklies, pulp magazines, fanzines and other amateur publications, comic books and graphic novels, and posters, postcards, greeting cards, mail-order catalogs, and travel brochures, comprise some of the Library's most unusual collections.

The novel is classified as bildungsroman and comprises two parts:

The Uncle Fred stories comprise one short and four novels, two of which are set at Blandings Castle:

His science-fiction novel Radix was nominated for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel and was followed by three other novels, the four books, together, comprising the critically acclaimed 'Radix Tetrad.'

Norman Mailer's huge new novel, "Harlot's Ghost," about life in the Central Intelligence Agency, comprises three books written by Mr. Mailer's alter ego, Herrick (Harry) Hubbard, an officer in the C.I.A.

His novels include The Music-Makers, and the bestselling Antichrist Trilogy (which has sold more than a million copies in 38 countries), and comprises The Nostradamus Prophecies, The Mayan Codex, and The Third Antichrist.

Although novels comprised the bulk of Reid's literary body of work, he was also the author of several stories, collected in Fourteen Jamaican Short Stories (1950), and a play entitled Waterford Bar (1959).