Ninety-nine Novels
1984 book by Anthony Burgess
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess, published by Allison & Busby in 1984. It covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for The Yorkshire Post. In the course of his career he wrote more than 30 novels. The list represents his choices; in an interview with Don Swaim,[1] Burgess revealed that the book was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company and written in two weeks.
The List
References
- ^ 1985 interview with Anthony Burgess Archived 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- "Modern Novels; The 99 Best" by Anthony Burgess, New York Times (February 5, 1984), full text of "Introduction"
- Deccan Herald (April 11, 2004): "Big novel, shrinking universe"
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Works by Anthony Burgess
- The Long Day Wanes
- The Right to an Answer
- The Doctor Is Sick
- The Worm and the Ring
- Devil of a State
- One Hand Clapping
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Wanting Seed
- Honey for the Bears
- Inside Mr Enderby
- The Eve of Saint Venus
- Nothing Like the Sun
- A Vision of Battlements
- Tremor of Intent
- Enderby Outside
- M/F
- Napoleon Symphony
- The Clockwork Testament
- Beard's Roman Women
- ABBA ABBA
- 1985
- Man of Nazareth
- Earthly Powers
- The End of the World News
- Enderby's Dark Lady
- The Kingdom of the Wicked
- The Pianoplayers
- Any Old Iron
- Mozart and the Wolf Gang
- A Dead Man in Deptford
- Byrne
- Moses: A Narrative
- Revolutionary Sonnets
- An Essay on Censorship
- Homage to Qwert Yuiop
- One Man's Chorus
- Shakespeare
- Joysprick
- Ninety-Nine Novels
- Language Made Plain
- A Mouthful of Air