List of Burgess' works

This is a list of works by the English novelist 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)
* "" (1964)
* "A Vision of Battlements" (1965)
* "" (1966)
* "Enderby Outside" (1968) (Volume 2 of the Enderby quartet)
* "M/F" (1971)
* "" (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)
* "" (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)
* "" (in verse) (1995)

Poetry

* "" (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)
* "" (1986)
* "" (1987)

hort stories

* 'An American Organ', in "Splinters", ed. Alex Hamilton (1968)
* 'I Wish My Wife Was Dead', "Transatlantic Review" (Winter 1969-1970 edition)
* "" (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 Tea Time" (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

* "" (1968)
* "" (1986), also published as "But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings"
* "", ed. Ben Forkner (1998)

Biographies

* "Shakespeare" (1970)
* "Ernest Hemingway and his World" (1978), also published as "Ernest Hemingway"
* "" (1985)

tudies of linguistics

* "Language Made Plain" (1964) (ISBN 0-8152-0222-9)
* "" (1992) (ISBN 0-688-11935-2)

Books on music

* "This Man and Music" (1982)
* "" (1991)

Joyce studies

* "" (1965), also published as "Re Joyce"
* "" (1973)

Works on literature

* (as John Burgess Wilson) "" (1958, revised 1974)
* "The Novel To-day" (1963)
* "" (1967)
* "Scrissero in Inglese" (1979) ("They Wrote in English", Italy only)
* "" (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" (letter to Salman Rushdie in verse) (1989)
* "Childhood" (Penguin 60s series) (1996)
*"Rencontre au Sommet" (conversations between Burgess and Isaac Bashevis Singer in book form) (1998)
* "" (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 Pelegri’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)

elected musical compositions

*"", 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 "" (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 "" (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)