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Anthony Burgess


(John Anthony Burgess Wilson)
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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)
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Enderby
   1. Enderby (1968)
   2. Enderby Outside (1968)
   3. The Clockwork Testament (1974)
   4. Enderby's Dark Lady (1984)
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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)
   A Long Trip to Teatime (1976)
   Beard's Roman Women (1976)
   Moses (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)
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Collections
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Plays
   Oberon Old and New (1985) (with J R Planche)
   Blooms of Dublin (1986)
   A Clockwork Orange 2004 (1990)
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Picture Books
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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)
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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)
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Short stories
An American Organ
A Pair of Gloves
The Muse (1968)


Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1980) : Earthly Powers


Anthony Burgess recommends
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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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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."
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Forgotten Life (1988)
(Squire Quartet, book 2)
Brian Aldiss
"A triumphant success."
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The Art of the Novel (1988)
Milan Kundera
"A 'practitioner's confession'... highly readable, provocative, and of inspirational force."
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Mr. Fox (1987)
Barbara Comyns
"Let us make no bones about it: Barbara Comyns is one of our most original talents."
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An Adultery (1987)
Alexander Theroux
"A psychological masterpiece."

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