If you write a colection of 4 books what would you call that if 3 are a Trilogy?

Answer 1

With Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, it's called a trilogy with a prequel.

Answer 2

Quartet.

The fact that "Trilogy" comes from the Greek doesn't mean that a series of four should also come from the Greek.

Quartet is a perfectly acceptable word that has been used for a group of four things (musicians, etc.) for at least a couple of hundred years. No need to go making up new words for it.

As in "The Alexandria Quartet" - which was a series of four books by Lawrence Durrell (or what it Gerald? No, he was the naturalist).

Answer 3

The word trilogy is a greek word. English take the word trilogia, which mean 3 texts and made the word trilogy.
In Greek language the 4 texts named tetralogia, so the english word for 4 books is tetralogy

Answer 4

If you're Douglas Adams, it's still a trilogy... In fact his trilogy ran to 5 books in the end. His humour and style will be sorely missed by his many fans.

Answer 5

Douglas Adams wrote 5 books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series- the fifth said "The fifth book of the increasingly inaptly-named Hitchhiker's trilogy."

Answer 6

Quadology, Double Deuce, Quattro series, Fourply???

Answer 7

quadrilogy:

"Quadruple combination.... published together in a single volume"

There is a well known quadrilogy already out there.. remember the Alien movies? The Alien Quadrilogy is a four-movie, box set of Alien, Aliens, Alien³ and Alien: .

The term 'Quadrilogy' is a neologism coined by Fox in place of tetralogy. so its not a recently made up word

Answer 8

trilogy is actually from the Greek. So you wouldn't use the Latin quatro as a prefix. It would be a tetralogy (from the Greek tetra, four and logos, word/discourse). The confusion comes from the fact the Latin and Greek prefixes are both 'tri'.

Answer 9

stephen king called his collection of 4 novellas, "the four seasons" (consisting of "the body"; the film is know as, "stand by me", "rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption", "the apt pupil", and a fourth which was anything but memorable and coincidentally never made into a movie as the other three have been).

:) so, pick a theme and call it "the four __________"

Answer 10

A Quartet. Laurence Durrell wrote "The Alexandrian Quartet". And you could go on with quintet, sextet, septet, octet...by which time everyone would be begging you to stop!