trilogy

[tiny tim]

Does anyone know the 'one word title'  of a novel, part of a controversial trilogy published in the early 1950's?

[Golem]

In the 1950's Isaac Asimov wrote what has become known as The Foundation Trilogy.

The three titles are Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation.

[Trillipse]

later added to, with such as "Foundation's Edge", "Foundation and Earth", or so i vaguely recall from my youth...

one of my favouritely remembered series.

although asimov the man was an irritating little sh1te.

[Dubster]

Henry James wrote the controversial trilogy Nexus, Plexus & Sexus which I think was around that time.

[jno]

just checked out Dune, but that started in the 1960s. My guess is Sexus was a lot more controversial than Asimov's work - but it was by Henry Miller. Henry James did not do that sort of thing at all.

[sddsddean]

'Gormenghast' was published in 1950. It is written by Mervyn Peake (who was going round the bend when he did the last bit) and is brilliant, though very surreal. If you can get into it, I highly recommend it. The 3 books are 'Titus Groan', 'Gormenghast' & 'Titus Alone'.

[maxi29]

Sexus is certainly controversial enough... but was first published in 1962. As that was the first book, it can't be the Henry Millier trilogy.

[Peter Pedant]

Does the alexandrian quartet count as a trilogy if you knock a leg off?

Didnt he write a book called TUNC?

Gerald Durrell I mean

[jno]

actually Sexus was first published in Paris in 1949, Plexus 1953 and Nexus 1960. So not sure if that's what you're after.

[maxi29]

Jno, I thought the Sexus/Plexus/Nexus trilogy was in the 40s too before I checked, but my copy of Sexus definitely has Copyright 1962 in the publishing blurb.

[jno]

maxi, I got the dates from a website on Miller - I suspect it was privately published, probably at something like the Olympia Press (who used to do a lot of racy stuff you couldn't publish in English-speaking countries), and he then went on to find a US publisher in a more liberal era. But between your dates and mine, I'm still not sure this is what tiny tim is looking for, though it sounds as if it ought to be.

[tiny tim]

Thank you all for your comments. I've got the answer I need now.

[sddsddean]

So which was it?