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 • '''' (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 •
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) () •
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 (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) • Contributor to ''David Jacob's Book of Celebrities' Jokes & Anecdotes'' (Robson Books 1980) • 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
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