Anthony Burgess bibliography
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Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates This is a list of works by the English writer Anthony Burgess.
Works
Novels
- Time for a Tiger (1956) (Volume 1 of the Malayan trilogy, The Long Day Wanes)
- The Enemy in the Blanket (1958) (Volume 2 of the trilogy)
- Beds in the East (1959) (Volume 3 of the trilogy)
- The Right to an Answer (1960)
- The Doctor Is Sick (1960)
- The Worm and the Ring (1960)
- Devil of a State (1961)
- (as Joseph Kell) One Hand Clapping (1961)
- A Clockwork Orange (1962)
- The Wanting Seed (1962)
- Honey for the Bears (1963)
- (as Joseph Kell) Inside Mr. Enderby (1963) (Volume 1 of the Enderby quartet)
- The Eve of St. Venus (1964)
- Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life (1964)
- A Vision of Battlements (1965)
- Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel (1966)
- Enderby Outside (1968) (Volume 2 of the Enderby quartet)
- M/F (1971)
- Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements (1974)
- The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End (1974) (Volume 3 of the Enderby quartet)
- Beard's Roman Women (1976)
- Abba Abba (1977)
- 1985 (1978)
- Man of Nazareth (based on his screenplay for Jesus of Nazareth) (1979)
- Earthly Powers (1980)
- The End of the World News: An Entertainment (1982)
- Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End of Enderby (1984) (Volume 4 of the Enderby quartet)
- The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985)
- The Pianoplayers (1986)
- Any Old Iron (1988)
- Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991)
- A Dead Man in Deptford (1993)
- Byrne: A Novel (in verse) (1995)
Poetry
- Moses: A Narrative (1976) (long poem)
- Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems, ed. Kevin Jackson (collection) (2002)
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Theatre
- Carl Maria von Weber's Oberon Old and New (new libretto) (1985)
- Blooms of Dublin (1986)
- A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music (1987)
Short stories
- 'Somebody's Got to Pay the Rent', Partisan Review (Winter 1968 edition)
- 'An American Organ', in Splinters, ed. Alex Hamilton (1968)
- 'I Wish My Wife Was Dead', Transatlantic Review (Winter 1969–1970 edition)
- Will and Testament: A Fragment of Biography (reworking of Kipling's short story 'Proofs of Holy Writ') (1977)
- The Devil's Mode and Other Stories (1989) (collection)
For children
- Template:Ill (1976)
- The Land Where The Ice Cream Grows (1979)
Autobiography
- Little Wilson and Big God, Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1986)
- You've Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (1990)
Collections of journalism
- Urgent Copy: Literary Studies (1968)
- Homage to Qwert Yuiop: Selected Journalism 1978–1985 (1986), also published as But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings
- One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, ed. Ben Forkner (1998)
- The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961–1993, ed. Will Carr, Carcanet Press (2018), Template:ISBN
Biographies
- Shakespeare (1970)
- Ernest Hemingway and his World (1978), also published as Ernest Hemingway. Reissued in paperback, I.B.Tauris, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham (2015) (Template:ISBN)
- Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (1985)
Studies of linguistics
- Language Made Plain (1964) (Template:ISBN)
- A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992) (Template:ISBN)
Books on music
- This Man and Music (1982)
- Mozart and the Wolf Gang or On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang, Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination, a Stendhalian Transcription, and a Heartfelt Homage upon the Bicentenary of the Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1991)
Joyce studies
- Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965), also published as Re Joyce
- Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (1973)
Works on literature
- (as John Burgess Wilson) English Literature: A Survey for Students (1958, revised 1974)
- The Novel To-day (1963)
- The Novel Now: A Student's Guide to Contemporary Fiction (1967)
- Scrissero in Inglese (1979) ("They Wrote in English", Italy only)
- Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice (1984)
Other non-fiction
- 'What is Pornography?' (essay) in Perspectives on Pornography, ed. Douglas A. Hughes (1970)
- Obscenity and the Arts (1973)
- New York (1976)
- A Christmas Recipe (1977)
- On Going To Bed (1982)
- An Essay on Censorship (essay about Salman Rushdie in heroic couplets) (1989)
- Childhood (Penguin 60s series) (1996)
- Rencontre au Sommet (conversations between Burgess and Isaac Bashevis Singer in book form) (1998)
- Spain: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times (2001) (section)
- Return Trip Tango and Other Stories from Abroad (anthology of material published in Translation magazine) (2003) (section)
Editor
- The Coaching Days of England (1966)
- The Age of the Grand Tour (1966) (co-editor with Francis Haskell)
- A Shorter 'Finnegans Wake' (1969)
Translations
- (with Lynne Wilson) Michel de Saint Pierre's The New Aristocrats (1962)
- (with Lynne Wilson) Jean Pélégri's The Olive Trees of Justice (1962)
- Jean Servin's The Man Who Robbed Poor Boxes (1965)
- Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (first version 1971, second version 1985; new edition 1991) (translations/stage adaptations)
- Sophocles' Oedipus the King (1972) (translation and adaptation)
- Richard Strauss's Cavalier of the Rose (Hugo von Hofmannsthal libretto) (1982).
- Georges Bizet's Carmen, libretto (1986)
- Alexandr Griboyedov's Chatsky, or the Importance of Being Stupid (four-act verse comedy) (1993)
Selected musical compositions
- Burgess: Music of an English Writer on the Riviera, album of music composed by Burgess and performed by the Aighetta Guitar Quartet, conducted by Avery Gosfield (1996 audio CD)
- 'A Manchester Overture' (1989)
- 'Tommy Reilly's Maggot', duet for harmonica and piano (1940s)
- 'Rome in the Rain', piano and orchestra (1976)
- Kalau Tuan Mudek Ka-Ulu, five Malay pantuns for soprano and native instruments (1955)
- 'Gibraltar', symphonic poem (1944)
- Dr Faustus, one-act opera (1940)
- 'Trois Morceaux Irlandais', guitar quartet (1980s)
- 'Bethlehem Palm Trees' (Lope de Vega) (1972)
- Chaika, for ship's orchestra (1961; composed aboard the Baltika on voyage to Leningrad)
- 'Song of a Northern City', for piano and orchestra (1947)
- 'The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard', 24 preludes and fugues for piano (1985)
- Partita for string orchestra (1951)
- 'Terrible Crystal: Three Hopkins sonnets for baritone, chorus and orchestra' (1952)
- 'Ludus Multitonalis' for recorder consort (1951)
- 'Lines for an Old Man' (i.e. Eliot) (1939)
- Concertino for piano and percussion (1951)
- Symphonies: 1937; 1956 (Sinfoni Melayu); 1975 (No. 3 in C)
- Sinfoni Malaya for orchestra and brass band, including cries of "Merdeka!" from the audience (1957)
- Mr W.S., ballet suite for orchestra (1979)
- 'Cabbage Face', song for vaudeville skit (1937)
- Sinfonietta for jazz combo
- Pando, march for a P&O orchestra (1958)
- 'Everyone suddenly burst out singing' (Sassoon) for voices and piano (1942)
- Concertos for piano and flute
- 'The Ascent of F6' (Isherwood), music for dance orchestra (1948)
- 'Ode: Celebration for a Malay College', for boys' voices and piano (1954)
- 'Cantata for a Malay College' (1954)
- Passacaglia for orchestra (1961)
- 'Song of the South Downs' (1959)
- 'Mr Burgess's Almanack', winds & percussion (1987)
- The Eyes of New York music score for movie project (1975)
- 'Ich weiss es ist aus', group of cabaret songs (1939)
- Music for Will! (1968)
- Sonatas for piano (1946, 1951) and cello (1944)
- Trotsky in New York, opera (1980)
- Three guitar quartets, No. 1 in homage to Ravel (1986–1989)
- The Brides of Enderby, song cycle (1977)
- 'Music for Hiroshima', for double string orchestra (1945)
- Suite for orchestra of Malays, Chinese and Indians (1956)
Prefaces, etc.
- Introduction to Henry Howarth Bashford's Augustus Carp, Esquire, By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (Heinemann 1966)
- Introduction to Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone (Pan Books 1967)
- Introduction to Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin 1967)
- Introduction to Hubert Selby Jr's Last Exit to Brooklyn (Calder and Boyars 1968)
- Introduction to Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (Penguin 1968)
- Introduction to G. K. Chesterton's Autobiography (Hutchinson 1969)
- Introduction to G. V. Desani's All About H. Hatterr (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970)
- Introduction to John Collier's The John Collier Reader (Knopf 1972)
- Introduction to D. H. Lawrence and Italy (D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Etruscan Places) (Viking Press 1972)
- Foreword to Douglas Jerrold's Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures (Harvill 1974)
- Introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's The White Company (Murray 1975)
- Introduction to Maugham's Malaysian Stories (Heinemann 1978)
- Introduction to The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (Henry Holt & Co 1978)
- Introduction to Daniel Angeli and Jean-Paul Dousset's Private Pictures (Jonathan Cape 1980)
- Preface to Modern Irish Short Stories, edited by Ben Forkner (Viking Press 1980)
- Introduction to Rex Warner's The Aerodrome (Oxford University Press 1982)
- Afterword to The Heritage of British Literature (Thames and Hudson 1983)
- Foreword to Assessing the 1984 'Ulysses', No.1 in the Princess Grace Irish Library series of books (Rowman & Littlefield 1986)
- Introduction to Richard Aldington's The Colonel's Daughter (Hogarth Press 1986)
- Foreword to Alison Armstrong's The Joyce of Cooking (Station Hill Press 1986)
- Introduction to H.E. Bates's A Month by the Lake & Other Stories (New Directions, 1987)
- Introduction to Venice: An Illustrated Anthology, compiled by Michael Marquesee (Conran Octopus, 1988)
- Preface to Ian Fleming's Casino Royale (Coronet Books, 1988)
- Preface to Ian Fleming's Dr. No (Coronet Books 1988)
- Preface to Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die (Coronet Books, 1988)
- Preface to Ian Fleming's You Only Live Twice (Coronet Books, 1988)
- Preface to David W. Barber's Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History as It Ought to Be Taught (Sound And Vision Publishing 1988)
- Introduction to James Hanley's Boy (Andre Deutsch, 1990)
- Introduction to Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Authentic Texts, 1991)
- Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Penguin Authentic Texts, 1991)
- Introduction to James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Vintage, 1992)
- Introduction to James Joyce's Ulysses (Vintage 1992)
- Introduction to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (Vintage 1992)
- Preface to The Book of Tea (Flammarion 1992)
- Introduction to Bob Cato and Greg Vitiello's Joyce Images (W.W. Norton, 1994)
- Introduction to Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash (Carlton Books, 1994)
- Foreword to collector's edition of James Joyce's Dubliners (Secker & Warburg 1994)
- Foreword to collector's edition of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Secker & Warburg, 1994)
- Foreword to collector's edition of James Joyce's Ulysses (Secker & Warburg, 1994)
- Afterword to Erica Jong's How to Save Your Own Life (Plume 1995)
- Preface to Gore Vidal's Creation (Vintage USA 2002 edition of 1981 novel)
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