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Anthony Burgess

(John Anthony Burgess Wilson)

(1917 - 1993)

aka Joseph Kell

The writer and critic Anthony Burgess was born John Anthony Burgess Wilson in Manchester. He studied at Xaverian College and Manchester University, lectured at Birmingham University, worked for the Ministry of Education, and taught at Banbury Grammar School. He then became an education officer in Malaya and Brunei where his experiences inspired his MALAYAN TRILOGY (1965). His many novels include A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 1985, and ANY OLD IRON. In his later years he lived in Monaco. He died in 1993

Genres: Historical

Series

Malayan Trilogy
   1. Time for a Tiger (1956)
   2. The Enemy in the Blanket (1957)
   3. Beds in the East (1959)

Enderby
   1. Enderby (1968)
   2. Enderby Outside (1968)
   3. The Clockwork Testament (1974)
   4. Enderby's Dark Lady (1984)

Novels

   The Wanting Seed (1956)
   The Doctor Is Sick (1960)
   The Right to an Answer (1960)
   Devil of a State (1961)
   One Hand Clapping (1961) (as by Joseph Kell)
     aka One Hand Clappin
   The Worm and the Ring (1961)
   A Clockwork Orange (1962)
   Honey for the Bears (1963)
   Inside Mr Enderby (1963)
   The Eve of Saint Venus (1964)
   Nothing Like the Sun (1964)
   A Vision of Battlements (1965)
   Tremor of Intent (1966)
   MF. (1971)
   Napoleon Symphony (1974)
   Moses (1976)
   A Long Trip to Teatime (1976)
   Beard's Roman Women (1976)
   Abba Abba (1977)
   1985 (1978)
   Man of Nazareth (1979)
   The Kingdom of the Wicked (1980)
   Earthly Powers (1980)
   The End of the World News (1982)
   The Pianoplayers (1986)
   Any Old Iron (1989)
   Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991)
   A Dead Man in Deptford (1993)
   Byrne (1995)
   The Black Prince (2018) (with Adam Roberts)

Collections

   Two Tales of the Future (1980)
   But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen? (1986)
   The Devil's Mode (1989)
   Future Imperfect (1994)
   The Complete Enderby (1995)
   One Man's Chorus (1998)

Plays

   Oberon Old and New (1985) (with J R Planche)
   Blooms of Dublin (1986)
   A Clockwork Orange 2004 (1990)

Picture Books

Land Where the Ice Cream Grows (1979)

Non fiction

   The Novel Today (1963)
   Language Made Plain (1964)
   Here Comes Everybody (1965)
   Coaching Days of England (1966)
   Urgent Copy (1966)
   Age of the Grand Tour (1967) (with Francis Haskell)
   The Novel Now (1967)
   Shakespeare (1970)
   Joysprick (1973)
   New York (1977)
   Ernest Hemingway and his World (1978)
   On Going to Bed (1982)
   This Man and Music (1982)
   The Heritage of British Literature (1983) (with Elizabeth Bowen, Lord David Cecil, Graham Greene and Kate O'Brien)
   99 Novels (1984)
   Flame Into Being (1985)
   Homage to QWERT YUIOP (1986)
   Little Wilson and Big God (1987)
   You've Had Your Time (1990)
   On Mozart (1991)
   The Book of Tea (1992)
   A Mouthful of Air (1992)

Anthologies containing stories by Anthony Burgess

Lie Ten Nights Awake (1967)
Best SF: 1969 (1969)
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
The 13th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1980)
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)

Short stories

	An American Organ
	A Pair of Gloves
	The Muse (1968)

Awards

The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : Earthly Powers

Books about Anthony Burgess

The Consolations of Ambiguity (1971) by Robert K Morris
Anthony Burgess (1972) by Carol M Dix
Anthony Burgess (1979) by Geoffrey Aggeler
Anthony Burgess (1980) by Jeutonne Brewer
Anthony Burgess (1984) by Paul W Boytinck
Clockwork Universe of Anthony Burgess (1990) by Richard Mathews
Anthony Burgess (1991) by Harold Bloom
Anthony Burgess Revisited (1991) by John J Stinson
Anthony Burgess (1992) by Samuel Coale

Anthony Burgess recommends

The Doves of Venus (1960)
Olivia Manning
"The most considerable of our women novelists."

Dead Fingers Talk (1963)
William S Burroughs
"It demands to be read... Greatest living writer... the first original since Joyce."

A Slanting Light (1963)
Gerda Charles
"Near-flawless."

The Village (1966)
Thomas Hinde
"A superb novelist - one of the most powerful and brilliant amongst contemporary British writers."

The Dice Man (1971)
(Dice Man, book 1)
Luke Rhinehart
"Touching, ingenious and beautifully comic."

The Blood Oranges (1971)
John Hawkes
"Rich, evocative, highly original piece of fiction. It gilds contemporary American literature with real, not synthetic, gold."

Crash (1973)
J G Ballard
"A work of very powerful originality."

Aren't You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? (1973)
B S Johnson
"...the only living British author with the guts to reassess the novel form, extend its scope and still work in a recognisable fictional tradition."

In the Ocean of Night (1977)
(Galactic Center, book 1)
Gregory Benford
"Science fiction at its very best."

The Stone Arrow (1978)
(Pagans Trilogy, book 1)
Richard Herley
"A remarkable achievement."

And Again? (1979)
Seán O'Faoláin
"A novel of great originality. It reaffirms that life is worth living."

A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
John Kennedy Toole
"A fine funny novel. This is the kind of book one wants to keep quoting from."

The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. (1981)
George Steiner
"An astonishing book."

Serenissima (1987)
Erica Jong
"Fresh, innovative, ingenious...moving. The imagination of the poet she essentially is strikes deep. I recommend it with all my heart."

Mr. Fox (1987)
Barbara Comyns
"Let us make no bones about it: Barbara Comyns is one of our most original talents."

An Adultery (1987)
Alexander Theroux
"A psychological masterpiece."

The Art of the Novel (1988)
Milan Kundera
"A 'practitioner's confession'... highly readable, provocative, and of inspirational force."

Forgotten Life (1988)
(Squire Quartet, book 2)
Brian Aldiss
"A triumphant success."

The Holy Innocents (1988)
Gilbert Adair
"In the tradition of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles, considered a masterpiece. This is a far better book."

In a Cafe (1995)
Mary Lavin
"I envy the skill of Mary Lavin. . . . In her capacity to make much out of little, to compress an entire ethos into an apparently banal situation, she reminds us what literature is all about."

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