Nikos Kazantzakis

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1953
  • Latest Book:
    September 2012
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Zorba the Greek

    The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn explores the struggle between the aesthetic and the rational, the inner life and the life of the mind.The classic novel Zorba the Greek is the story of tw...

  • Greek Passion

    Like his The Last Temptation of Christ, literary master Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Greek Passion is a daring exploration of the pitfalls of a religion as it is practiced by its all-too-human followers. The tiny Greek village of Lycovrisi is planning i...

  • The Fratricides

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    The Fratricides is a searing novel of Greece's Civil War by the great master Nikos Kazantzakis. It is set in the rugged hills, where Communist guerrillas and Monarchist troops are fighting for the allegiance of the townspeople, and for dominion over ...

  • Three Plays

  • Saint Francis

    Like The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in...

  • Report to Greco

    Disarmingly personal and intensely philosophical, Report to Greco is a fictionalized account of Greek philosopher and writer Nikos Kazantzakis’s own life, a sort of intellectual autobiography that leads readers through his wide-ranging observations...

  • Alexander The Great

    Nikos Kazantzakis is no stranger to the heroes of Greek antiquity. In this historical novel based on the life of Alexander the Great, Kazantzakis has drawn on both the rich tradition of Greek legend and the documented manuscripts from the archives...

  • Freedom or Death

  • At the Palaces of Knossos

    Blending historical fact and classical myth, the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ transports the reader 3,000 years into the past, to a pivotal point in history: the final days before the ancient kingdom of Minoan Crete is ...



  • Freedom and Death

  • The Last Temptation

    Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous, and also a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original. 'When Kazantzakis describes the raising of Lazarus, the...

  • The Last Temptation of Christ

    The internationally renowned novel about the life and death of Jesus Christ.Hailed as a masterpiece by critics worldwide, The Last Temptation of Christ is a monumental reinterpretation of the Gospels that brilliantly fleshes out Christ’s Passion. T...

  • Christ Recrucified

    The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and sud...

  • Saviors of God

    As a writer and philosopher, Nikos Kazantzakis struggled all his life with existential questions, once spending several months in a monastery in an attempt to attain a closer relationship with God. His relentless quest to understand the nature of lif...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nikos Kazantzakis has published 14 books.

Nikos Kazantzakis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Saviors of God, was published in September 2012.

The first book by Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek, was published in February 1953.

No. Nikos Kazantzakis does not write books in series.
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