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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) *


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

* ' (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),


Biographies

* ''
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'' (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) () * '' Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence'' (1985)


Studies of linguistics

* '' Language Made Plain'' (1964) () * '' A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English'' (1992) ()


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) * ''
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'' (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) *
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' '' Oedipus the King'' (1972) (translation and adaptation) * Richard Strauss's '' Cavalier of the Rose'' ( Hugo von Hofmannsthal libretto) (1982). *
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'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' (
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) (1972) *'' Chaika'', for ship's orchestra (1961; composed aboard the ''Baltika'' on voyage to
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) *'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
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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
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', 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 Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for ''A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Hol ...
'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
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's ''
The Picture of Dorian Gray ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is an 1890 philosophical fiction and Gothic fiction, Gothic horror fiction, horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American period ...
'' (Penguin Authentic Texts, 1991) *Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald's '' The Great Gatsby'' (Penguin Authentic Texts, 1991) *Introduction to
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...
's '' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' (Vintage, 1992) *Introduction to
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...
's '' Ulysses'' (Vintage 1992) *Introduction to
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...
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Finnegans Wake ''Finnegans Wake'' is a novel by Irish literature, Irish writer James Joyce. It was published in instalments starting in 1924, under the title "fragments from ''Work in Progress''". The final title was only revealed when the book was publishe ...
'' (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 James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...
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Dubliners ''Dubliners'' is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were writ ...
'' (Secker & Warburg 1994) *Foreword to collector's edition of
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...
's '' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' (Secker & Warburg, 1994) *Foreword to collector's edition of
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...
'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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Burgess, Anthony Bibliographies by writer Books by Anthony Burgess Bibliographies of English writers Science fiction bibliographies