One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings

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One Man's Chorus
Author Anthony Burgess
Country Various
Language English
Genre(s) Journalism
Publisher Carroll & Graf
Publication date Dec 1998
Media type Print (Hardback and Paperback)
Pages 380 p.
ISBN ISBN 0-7867-0568-X (hardback), ISBN 0-7867-0699-6 (paperback)

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

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.

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  • Introduction (by Ben Forkner)
  • Genius Loci
    • The Ball Is Free to Rull
    • 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
  • In Our Time (and Other Reflections)
    • 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
  • Ars Poetica
    • 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
    • Artists' Life
    • Elgar non è vulgare
    • The Gaudiness of Gaudí
    • Orson Welles: The Artist as Briculeur
    • The Brotherhood
    • Why Were the Revulutionaries 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
  • Anniversaries and Celebrations
    • 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 ulivier
    • Gerald Manley Hopkins 1844-1889
    • Two Hundred Years of the Bounty
    • Our Eternal Hulmes
    • The Culd Eye of Yeats
    • Father of the OED
    • Chaplin on Stage
    • Evelyn Waugh: A Revaluation
    • James Joyce: Fifty Years After
    • Tulkien: A Centenary
    • Virginia Woolf Mortua 1941
    • Marilyn