Anthony Burgess

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  • Bibliography:
    45 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1963
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Book List in Order: 45 titles

  • A Clockwork Orange

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    A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after ark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal inv...

  • The Right to an Answer

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    “Mr. Burgess has invented complex, varying people, and he has moved them well, giving them much to suffer and to do. . . .In the closing pages, Burgess has set off a wild joke in which all his themes―poetry, England, race, love―crackle and s...

  • The Novel Now

  • Enderby

  • Cyrano de Bergerac

  • M/F

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    ""The situation as far as I''m concerned,"" says the young narrator-hero of M/F, ""is an interesting one. In two days in a strange country I''ve acquired a mother in the form of a Welsh-speaking Bird Queen who scares me. I''ve spent some hours in...

  • Tremor of Intent

    A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His...

  • Napoleon symphony

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    Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write.A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed -- in ...

  • The Clockwork Testament; Or, Enderby's End



  • Joysprick

  • Beard's Roman Women

    First Edition. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. The book has small bumps to its corners. Rubbing along the bottoms of the covers. The dust jacket has rubs to its spine tips and corners. Light wear to its upper edges....

  • Abba Abba

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    Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first part o...

  • Nineteen Eighty-Five

  • The Eve of Saint Venus

    “This romp through a rural English manor and its ritualistic mannerisms is a glittering entertainment, a grab-bag of allusions, images, and rhetorical gems that Burgess (an opulent king of the Queen’s English) profligately casts away like mere...

  • Earthly Powers

    An exploration of the very essence of power centers on two men who represent different types of earthly power--one an eminent novelist and well-known homosexual, the other a man of God who rises through the Vatican hierarchy...

  • The Long Day Wanes

    A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.

    Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor...

  • Man of Nazareth

  • Devil of a State

  • Enderby Outside



  • Inside Mr. Enderby

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    Inside Mr. Enderby introduced to a captivated audience Burgess's dyspeptic poet, whose uniquely idiosyncratic, scatological brand of verse even won the genuine approval of T. S. Eliot.In his first clash with the outside world, Enderby is extracted fr...

  • The End of the World News

    A futuristic account of the world's end is composed of three narrative strands presented as if viewed simultaneously, featuring historical and fictional figures, and shifting from New York, to Vienna, to outer space...

  • But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

  • Enderby's Dark Lady

    F.X. Enderby travels to Indiana in order to impress the Hoosiers with his musical script on the career of Shakespeare and falls in love with a nightclub singer....

  • The Kingdom of the Wicked

    "Anthony Burgess' dazzling evocation of the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. From the sexual antics of Tiberius to Caligula's excesses, from the burning of Nero's Rome to the eruption of Vesuvius, Burgess has fashioned a brillia...

  • The Pianoplayers

    Following the death of her father, an irregularly employed pianist, Ellen Henshaw becomes a high-class prostitute in Paris during the 1930s and then founds a chain of schools to instruct men in the arts of love and music...

  • Any Old Iron

    Fifty years in the lives of two families--one Russian-Welsh, another Jewish--are traced from WW I to the founding of Israel. PW described this as ``a novel that is for the most part breathlessly readable, touching and funny by turns, and which passes...

  • The Devil's Mode

    Included in this collection are eight short stories and a 110-page novella, "Hun", about the life and loves of Attila and his fight against the patricians of Rome. The author has written over 50 books including "Any Old Iron", "Earthly Powers" and "A...

  • Spiritual Refining

  • Malayan Trilogy



  • A Dead Man in Deptford

    In pitch-perfect and compulsively readable prose, Burgess recreates the world of Elizabethan England--from the court and its intrigue to the theater and its genius--in this life of Christopher Marlowe, murdered in suspicious circumstances in a tavern...

  • Honey for the Bears

    "There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy…Honey for the Bears is a triumph." -- Kingsley Amis, New York TimesA sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends ...

  • Shakespeare

    Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost per...

  • Nothing Like the Sun

    "Wildly inventive" -- Stephen Greenblatt, author of The SwerveA magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces th...

  • The Wanting Seed

    Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homo...

  • The Doctor Is Sick

    "Fine, sly, rich comedy." -- New York Times Book ReviewDr. Edwin Spindrift, a very ordinary lecturer in linguistics, has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condit...

  • Byrne

    The first American publication of the late writer's comic-satiric epic novel in verse tells the story of a Don Juan-type Irish artist who vanishes under Hitler's regime. By the author of A Clockwork Orange. ...

  • One Hand Clapping

    With film rights acquired by Francis Ford Coppola, this comic novel of instant riches is back in stock. From the author of A Clockwork Orange, One Hand Clapping is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life. The tragi-comedy of u...

  • The Eve of St Venus

    This fascinating early work by Anthony Burgess is a delightful fantasy, blending classical myth and farce. Displaying a high degree of verbal ingenuity and intelligence, Burgess effortlessly plays with ideas to create a riotous comedy that is ultimat...

  • 1985

    In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our wor...



  • A Long Trip to Teatime

    The original illustrations, marvelously expressive black and white drawings by Fulvio Testa, form the ideal complement for Burgess's text. — The Emerald City Book ReviewEdmund Ironside, Edward the Confessor, Edward the Elder, Edward the Martyr ...

  • Beds in the East

    The title is taken from a line spoken by Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra II. vi.49-52: 'The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,/That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;/For I have gain'd by 't....

  • The Enemy in the Blanket

  • Time for a Tiger

    Time for a Tiger is part one of Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy The Long Day Wanes, "the first panel of a triptych" set in the twilight of British rule of the peninsula. The title alludes to an advertising slogan for Tiger beer, then, as...

  • Mozart and the Wolf Gang

    Written in 1991 to commemorate the bicentennial of Mozart''s death, Burgess''s novella-length piece is a compendium of themes, genres and even art-forms revolving around the one central preoccupation of the entire Burgess oeuvre: the reconcilability ...

  • A Shorter Ulysses

    This volume is a major event in both the James Joyce and Anthony Burgess literary annals. It not any marks the first publication of Burgess’s Shorter Ulysses, which was only recently discovered in the Burgess archives, but also the first republ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anthony Burgess has published 45 books.

The next book by Anthony Burgess, A Shorter Ulysses, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, was published in January 1963.

No. Anthony Burgess does not write books in series.
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