Anthony Burgess bibliography

This is a list of works by the English writer Anthony Burgess.

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

 * A Long Trip to Teatime (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), ISBN 978-1-784-10393-4

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) (ISBN 978-1-784-53118-8)
 * Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence (1985)

Studies of linguistics

 * Language Made Plain (1964) (ISBN 0-8152-0222-9)
 * A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English (1992) (ISBN 0-688-11935-2)

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)