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Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire ''A Clockwork ...
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Works


Novels

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Time for a Tiger ''The Malayan Trilogy'', also published as ''The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy'' in the United States, is a comic 'triptych' of novels by Anthony Burgess set amidst the decolonisation of Malaya. It is a detailed fictional exploration ...
'' (1956) (Volume 1 of the Malayan trilogy, '' The Long Day Wanes'') * ''
The Enemy in the Blanket ''The Malayan Trilogy'', also published as ''The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy'' in the United States, is a comic 'triptych' of novels by Anthony Burgess set amidst the decolonisation of Malaya. It is a detailed fictional exploration ...
'' (1958) (Volume 2 of the trilogy) * ''
Beds in the East ''The Malayan Trilogy'', also published as ''The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy'' in the United States, is a comic 'triptych' of novels by Anthony Burgess set amidst the decolonisation of Malaya. It is a detailed fictional exploration ...
'' (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 ''A Clockwork Orange'' may refer to: * ''A Clockwork Orange'' (novel), a 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess ** ''A Clockwork Orange'' (film), a 1971 film directed by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel *** ''A Clockwork Orange'' (soundtrack), the film ...
'' (1962) * ''
The Wanting Seed ''The Wanting Seed'' is a dystopian novel by the English author Anthony Burgess, written in 1962. Theme Although the novel addresses many societal issues, the primary subject is overpopulation and its relation to culture. Religion, government ...
'' (1962) * '' Honey for the Bears'' (1963) * (as Joseph Kell) ''
Inside Mr. Enderby ''Inside Mr Enderby'' is the first volume of the Enderby series, a quartet of comic novels by the British author Anthony Burgess. The book was first published in 1963 in London by William Heinemann under the pseudonym Joseph Kell. The series beg ...
'' (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 ''Beard's Roman Women'' is a 1976 novel by British novelist Anthony Burgess. Dated "Montalbuccio-Monte Carlo-Eze-Callian, Summer 1975", according to Burgess it was written in the back of his Bedford Dormobile as he and his wife, Liana Burgess t ...
'' (1976) * '' Abba Abba'' (1977) * ''
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'' (1978) * ''
Man of Nazareth ''Man of Nazareth'' is a 1979 historical novel by Anthony Burgess based on his screenplay for Franco Zeffirelli's television miniseries '' Jesus of Nazareth''. It is the second in a trilogy of Burgess books with biblical themes, the others bei ...
'' (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 ''The Pianoplayers'' is a 1986 novel by Anthony Burgess John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993), who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was p ...
'' (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

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Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 17865 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas, ...
'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 ''Partisan Review'' (''PR'') was a small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City. The magazine was launched in 1934 by the Communist Party USA–affiliated Joh ...
'' (Winter 1968 edition) * 'An American Organ', in ''Splinters'', ed. Alex Hamilton (1968) * 'I Wish My Wife Was Dead', ''
Transatlantic Review Transatlantic, Trans-Atlantic or TransAtlantic may refer to: Film * Transatlantic Pictures, a film production company from 1948 to 1950 * Transatlantic Enterprises, an American production company in the late 1970s * ''Transatlantic'' (1931 film), ...
'' (Winter 1969–1970 edition) * '' Will and Testament: A Fragment of Biography'' (reworking of
Kipling Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much o ...
'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

* '' 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),


Biographies

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Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
'' (1970) * '' Ernest Hemingway and his World'' (1978), also published as ''Ernest Hemingway''. Reissued in paperback, I.B.Tauris, with an introduction by
Patrick Marnham Patrick Marnham is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Literature in 1988. He is primarily known for his travel writing and for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as D ...
(2015) () * '' Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D. H. Lawrence'' (1985)


Studies of linguistics

* '' Language Made Plain'' (1964) () * '' A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English'' (1992) ()


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 A child (plural, : children) is a human being between the stages of childbirth, birth and puberty, or between the Development of the human body, developmental period of infancy and puberty. The legal definition of ''child'' generally refers ...
'' (Penguin 60s series) (1996) *'' Rencontre au Sommet'' (conversations between Burgess and
Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer ( yi, יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born American Jewish writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help ...
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 Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist. A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th cen ...
'' (first version 1971, second version 1985; new edition 1991) (translations/stage adaptations) *
Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or c ...
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Oedipus the King ''Oedipus Rex'', also known by its Greek title, ''Oedipus Tyrannus'' ( grc, Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, ), or ''Oedipus the King'', is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Gr ...
'' (1972) (translation and adaptation) * Richard Strauss's '' Cavalier of the Rose'' (
Hugo von Hofmannsthal Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. Early life Hofmannsthal was born in Landstraße, Vienna, the son of an upper-cl ...
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
pantun ''Pantun'' ( Jawi: ) is a Malay oral poetic form used to express intricate ideas and emotions. It is generally consists of even-numbered lines and based on ABAB rhyming schemes. The shortest consists of two lines better known as the in Mal ...
s 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 Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
) *'Song of a Northern City', for piano and orchestra (1947) *' The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard', 24 preludes and fugues for piano (1985) *
Partita Partita (also ''partie'', ''partia'', ''parthia'', or ''parthie'') was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor until 1722), his student Christoph Graupner, and Johann ...
for string orchestra (1951) *'Terrible Crystal: Three
Hopkins Hopkins is an English, Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The English name means "son of Hob". ''Hob'' was a diminutive of ''Robert'', itself deriving from the Germanic warrior name ''Hrod-berht'', translated as "renowned-fame". The Robert spell ...
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 Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...
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 ''The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts'', by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the second and most successful play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1936. It was a major contribution to English poetic drama in ...
' ( Isherwood), music for dance orchestra (1948) *'Ode: Celebration for a
Malay College The Malay College Kuala Kangsar (abbreviated MCKK; ; ) is a premier residential school in Malaysia. It is an elite all-boys and all- Malay school in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, Perak. It is sometimes dubbed "the Eton College of the East". ...
', for boys' voices and piano (1954) *'Cantata for a
Malay College The Malay College Kuala Kangsar (abbreviated MCKK; ; ) is a premier residential school in Malaysia. It is an elite all-boys and all- Malay school in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, Perak. It is sometimes dubbed "the Eton College of the East". ...
' (1954) *
Passacaglia The passacaglia (; ) is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers. It is usually of a serious character and is often based on a bass- ostinato and written in triple metre. Origin The t ...
for orchestra (1961) *'Song of the
South Downs The South Downs are a range of chalk hills that extends for about across the south-eastern coastal counties of England from the Itchen valley of Hampshire in the west to Beachy Head, in the Eastbourne Downland Estate, East Sussex, in the eas ...
' (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) *''
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in New York'', opera (1980) *Three guitar quartets, No. 1 in homage to
Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In ...
(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 Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (13 January 1880 – 15 August 1961) was a distinguished English physician, becoming Honorary Physician to King George VI. He was also an author, most notably of satirical novels. Early life Bashford was born in Ke ...
's '' Augustus Carp, Esquire, By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man'' (Heinemann 1966) *Introduction to
Wilkie Collins William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for '' The Woman in White'' (1859), a mystery novel and early "sensation novel", and for '' The Moonstone'' (1868), which has b ...
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The Moonstone ''The Moonstone'' (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, and established many of the ground rules of the modern genre. The story was serialised in Charles Di ...
'' (Pan Books 1967) *Introduction to Daniel Defoe's '' A Journal of the Plague Year'' (Penguin 1967) *Introduction to
Hubert Selby Jr Hubert "Cubby" Selby Jr. (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' (1964) and '' Requiem for a Dream'' (1978) explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of wh ...
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Last Exit to Brooklyn ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose. Critics and fellow writers praised ...
'' (Calder and Boyars 1968) *Introduction to
Mervyn Peake Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the '' Gormenghast'' books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived ...
's ''
Titus Groan ''Titus Groan'' is a novel by Mervyn Peake, first published in 1946. It is the first novel in the ''Gormenghast'' series. Plot introduction The book is set in the huge castle of Gormenghast, a vast landscape of crumbling towers and ivy-filled ...
'' (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 David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...
's '' Twilight in Italy'', '' Sea and Sardinia'' and '' Etruscan Places'') (Viking Press 1972) *Foreword to
Douglas Jerrold Douglas William Jerrold (London 3 January 18038 June 1857 London) was an English dramatist and writer. Biography Jerrold's father, Samuel Jerrold, was an actor and lessee of the little theatre of Wilsby near Cranbrook in Kent. In 1807 Dougla ...
's ''Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures'' (Harvill 1974) *Introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's ''
The White Company ''The White Company'' is a historical adventure by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward ...
'' (Murray 1975) *Introduction to '' Maugham's Malaysian Stories'' (Heinemann 1978) *Introduction to ''The Best Short Stories of
J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 193019 April 2009) was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist known for provocative works of fiction which explored the relations between human psychology, technology, sex, and mass med ...
'' (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 Rex Warner (9 March 1905 – 24 June 1986) was an English classicist, writer, and translator. He is now probably best remembered for ''The Aerodrome'' (1941).Chris Hopkins, ''English Fiction in the 1930s: Language, Genre, History'' Continuum Inte ...
'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 Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet, and an early associate of the Imagist movement. He was married to the poet Hilda Doolittle (H. D.) from 1911 to 1938. His 50-year w ...
'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 ''A Month by the Lake'' is a 1995 romantic comedy film starring Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox (actor), Edward Fox and Uma Thurman. The picture is directed by John Irvin and is based on the story by H.E. Bates. The supporting cast features Alida Val ...
& 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 A boy is a young male human. The term is commonly used for a child or an adolescent. When a male human reaches adulthood, he is described as a man. Definition, etymology, and use According to the ''Merriam-Webster Dictionary'', a boy is ...
'' ( Andre Deutsch, 1990) *Introduction to Oscar Wilde's ''
The Picture of Dorian Gray ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is a philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical '' Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''.''The Picture of Dorian G ...
'' (Penguin Authentic Texts, 1991) *Introduction to
F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularize ...
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The Great Gatsby ''The Great Gatsby'' is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby ...
'' (Penguin Authentic Texts, 1991) *Introduction to
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A ''Künstlerroman'' written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional al ...
'' (Vintage, 1992) *Introduction to
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
's '' Ulysses'' (Vintage 1992) *Introduction to
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
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Finnegans Wake ''Finnegans Wake'' is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is well known for its experimental style and reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. It has been called "a work of fiction which combines a bod ...
'' (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 Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote over 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by ''The New York Times'' the country's bes ...
'' (Carlton Books, 1994) *Foreword to collector's edition of
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
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Dubliners ''Dubliners'' is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. It presents a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were writ ...
'' (Secker & Warburg 1994) *Foreword to collector's edition of
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A ''Künstlerroman'' written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional al ...
'' (Secker & Warburg, 1994) *Foreword to collector's edition of
James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
's '' Ulysses'' (Secker & Warburg, 1994) *Afterword to
Erica Jong Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26, 1942) is an American novelist, satirist, and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel ''Fear of Flying''. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured pro ...
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'' (Plume 1995) *Preface to
Gore Vidal Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and e ...
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Creation Creation may refer to: Religion *''Creatio ex nihilo'', the concept that matter was created by God out of nothing * Creation myth, a religious story of the origin of the world and how people first came to inhabit it * Creationism, the belief tha ...
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