One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings

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One Man's Chorus
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Author Anthony Burgess
LanguageEnglish
Genre Journalism
Publisher Carroll & Graf
Publication date
Dec 1998
Publication placeVarious
Media typePrint (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages380 p.
ISBN 0-7867-0568-X (hardback), ISBN   0-7867-0699-6 (paperback)
OCLC 40283602
823/.914 21
LC Class PR6052.U638 A6 1998

One Man's Chorus gathers various essays and pieces of journalism written by Anthony Burgess throughout the later years of his life. [1] It was published posthumously in 1998. [2] The book is edited and introduced by Ben Forkner. [3]

While several of the essays may be considered autobiographical, others contain Burgess's thoughts on a wide variety of subjects including geography, culture, linguistics, and novelists. [2] [3]

Contents

  • The Ball Is Free to Roll
  • Francophonia
  • Going North
  • Understanding the French
  • Never Again Again
  • Something About Malaysia
  • The Brigg
  • Winterreise
  • The Art of Liking Rome
  • France and Myself
  • Farewell (& Hello Again) Manchester
  • Life (of a Sort) in Venice
  • Manchester as Was
  • Cut Off
  • The Royals
  • England in Europe
  • After This Our Exile
  • Thoughts on Time
  • The Jew and the Joke
  • The British Temper
  • The World Doesn't Like Gipsies
  • What Makes Comedy Comic?
  • Thoughts on the Thatcher Decade
  • Dirty Pictures
  • God and God's Voices
  • Success
  • The Celtic Sacrifice
  • Shaw as Musician
  • Ring
  • The Literature of the British from 1900 to 1982
  • All About Alice
  • Flann O'Brien A Prefatory Word
  • Artist's Life
  • Elgar non è volgare
  • The Gaudiness of Gaudí
  • Orson Welles: The Artist as Bricoleur
  • A Clockwork Orange Resucked
  • The Brotherhood
  • Why Were the Revolutionaries Reactionary?
  • Shakespeare the Poet
  • The Oriental Diseases of Fiction
  • Playing Hamlet with Hamlet
  • Graham Greene: A Reminiscence
  • Craft and Crucifixion—the Writing of Fiction
  • Strega in Do Maggiore
  • First Novel
  • Joyce as Centenarian
  • Great Scott?
  • Rudyard Kipling and the White Man's Burden
  • Domesday
  • Lorenzo
  • Quiet Pioneer
  • Good Gluck
  • Unravelling Ravel
  • God Struck with His Wind
  • Celebrating T. S. Eliot, Parts I and II
  • Lord Olivier
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844–1889
  • Two Hundred Years of the Bounty
  • Our Eternal Holmes
  • The Cold Eye of Yeats
  • Father of the OED
  • Chaplin on Stage
  • Evelyn Waugh: A Revaluation
  • James Joyce: Fifty Years After
  • Tolkien: A Centenary
  • Virginia Woolf Mortua 1941
  • Marilyn

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References

  1. "One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings by Anthony Burgess". Publishers Weekly . 30 November 1998. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
  2. 1 2 Olson, Ray (1 December 1998). "One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings". Booklist . 95 (7): 644 via Gale.
  3. 1 2 Block Jr., Edwin F. (13 March 1999). "One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings of Anthony Burgess". America . Vol. 180, no. 8. p. 37. Retrieved 24 December 2024 via Gale.