From AwardAnnals
Results of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the year 1974. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Monsieur: Or the Prince of Darkness
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell’s classic novel
Monsieur is set in a dilapidated chateau near Avignon and focuses on a group of characters who have decided to remove themselves from the world. Egypt, France and Venice provide a background for the action, which offers an original interpretation of the so-called sins of the Templars as Durrell depicts his characters caught up in the sinister and mysterious doings of a gnostic suicide club.
