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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange (1962), but altogether he wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 250 other musical works, and thousands of essays, articles and reviews.

Burgess was born in Manchester, England and grew up in Harpurhey and Moss Side. He was educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He lived in Malaya, Malta, Monaco, Italy and the United States, among other places. His books are still widely read all over the world.

Bibliography

Series

Malayan Trilogy


A Literary Fiction series (1956 - 1959)

This series is for you if you're into...

  • Satirical colonial Malaya with bite
  • Identity crises in multicultural societies
  • Sensory-rich settings steeped in political upheaval

Enderby


A Literary Fiction series (1963 - 1984)

Standalone Fiction

A Vision of Battlements

The Right to an Answer

The Doctor Is Sick

One Hand Clapping

Devil of a State

The Wanting Seed

A Clockwork Orange

Honey for the Bears

The Eve of Saint Venus

Nothing Like the Sun

Tremor of Intent

M/F

M/F


Napoleon Symphony in Four Movements

Beard's Roman Women

Man of Nazareth

ABBA ABBA

Earthly Powers

The End of the World News

Oberon Old & New

1985

1985


The Kingdom of the Wicked

The Pianoplayers

The Devil's Mode

The Devil's Mode

Short story collection

Any Old Iron

Mozart and the Wolf Gang

A Dead Man in Deptford

Byrne in Verse

The Black Prince

Standalone Non-fiction

Language Made Plain

Here Comes Everybody

The Novel Now

Shakespeare

Joysprick

Ernest Hemingway and His World

This Man and Music

99 Novels

Flame into Being

But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?

Little Wilson and Big God

Homage to QWERT YUIOP

You've Had Your Time

On Mozart

A Mouthful of Air

One Man's Chorus

One Man's Chorus

Short story collection

Works of Poetry

Moses

Moses

Children & Middle Grade Books

A Long Trip to Teatime

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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