99 novels : the best in English since 1939 : a personal choice / by Anthony Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Best books--English-speaking countries.

Best books.

English-speaking countries.

Best books--English fiction.

Best books--American fiction.

English fiction--Bibliography.

American fiction--Bibliography.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliographies.

Penn Provenance:

Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993 (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Other Title:

Ninety-nine novels

Ninety-nine novels.

Place of Publication:

New York : Summit Books, [1984]

Contents:

Introduction

1939:

Party going / by Henry Green

After many a summer / by Aldous Huxley

Finnegans wake / by James Joyce

At swim-two-birds / by Flann O'Brian

1940:

The power and the glory / by Graham Greene

For whom the bell tolls / by Ernest Hemingway

Strangers and brothers (to 1970) / by C.P. Snow

1941:

The aerodrome / by Rex Warner

1944:

The horse's mouth / by Joyce Cary

The razor's edge / by Somerset Maugham

1945:

Brideshead revisited / by Evelyn Waugh

1946:

Titus Groan / by Mervyn Peake

1947:

The victim / by Saul Bellow

Under the volcano / by Malcolm Lowry

1948:

The heart of the matter / by Graham Greene

Ape and essence / by Aldous Huxley

The naked and the dead / by Norman Mailer

No highway / by Nevil Shute

1949:

The heat of the day / by Elizabeth Bowen

Nineteen Eighty-Four / by George Orwell

The body / by William Sansom

1950:

Scenes from provincial life / by William Cooper

The disenchanted / by Budd Schulberg

1951:

A dance to the music of time (to 1975) / by Anthony Powell

The catcher in the rye / by J.D. Salinger

A chronicle of ancient sunlight (to 1969) / by Henry Williamson

The caine Mutiny / by Herman Wouk

1952:

Invisible man / by Ralph Ellison

The old man and the sea / by Ernest Hemingway

The groves of academe / by Mary McCarthy

Wise blood / by Flannery O'Connor

Sword of honour (to 1961) / by Evelyn Waugh

1953:

The long goodbye / by Raymond Chandler

1954:

Lucky Jim / by Kingsley Amis

1957:

Room at the top / by John Braine

The alexandria quartet (to 1960) / by Lawrence Durrell

The London novels (to 1960) / by Colin MacInnes

The assistant / by Bernard Malamud

1958:

The bell / by Iris Murdoch

Saturday night and Sunday morning / by Alan Sillitoe

The once and future king / by T.H. White

1959:

The mansion / by William Faulkner

Goldfinger / by Ian Fleming

1960 :

Facial justice / by L.P. Hartley

The Balkans trilogy (to 1965) / by Olivia Manning

1961:

The mighty and their fall / by Ivy Compton-Burnett

Catch-22 / by Joseph Heller

The fox in the attic / by Richard Hughes

Riders in the chariot / by Patrick White

The old men at the zoo / by Angus Wilson

1962:

Another country / by James Baldwin

An error of judgement / by Pamela Hansford Johnson

Island / by Aldous Huxley

The golden notebook / by Doris Lessing

Pale fire / by Vladimir Nabokov

1963:

The girls of slender means / by Muriel Spark

1964:

The spire / by William Golding

Heartland / by Wilson Harris

A single man / by Christopher Isherwood

The Defence / by Vladimir Nabokov

Late call / by Angus Wilson

1965:

The lockwood concern / by John O'Hara

The mandelbaum gate / by Muriel Spark

1966:

A man of the people / by Chinua Achebe

The anti-death league / by Kingsley Amis

Giles goat-boy / by John Barth

The late bourgeois world / by Nadine Gordimer

The last gentleman / by Walker Percy

1967:

The vendor of sweets / by R.K. Narayan

1968:

The image men / by J.B. Priestley

Cocksure / by Mordecai Richler

Pavane / by Keith Roberts

1969:

The french lieutenant's woman / by John Fowles

Portnoy's complaint / by Philip Roth

1970:

Bomber / by Len Deighton

1973:

Sweet dreams / by Michael Frayn

Gravity's rainbow / by Thomas Pynchon

1975:

Humboldt's gift / by Saul Bellow

The history man / by Malcolm Bradbury

1976:

The doctor's wife / by Brian Moore

Falstaff / by Robert Nye

1977:

How to save your own life / by Erica Jong

Farewell companions / by James Plunkett

Staying on / by Paul Scott

1978:

The coup / by John Updike

1979:

The unlimited dream company / by J.G. Ballard

Dubin's lives / by Bernard Malamud

A bend in the river / by V.S. Naipaul

Sophie's choice / by William Styron

1980:

Life in the west / Brian Aldiss

Riddley Walker / by Russell Hoban

How far can you go? / by David Lodge

A confederacy of dunces / by John Kennedy Toole

1981:

Lanark / by Alasdair Gray

Darconville's cat / by Alexander Theroux

The mosquito coast / by Paul Theroux

Creation / by Gore Vidal

1982:

The rebel angels / by Robertson Davies

1983:

Ancient evenings / by Norman Mailer

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-156) and index.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 signed by the author.

ISBN:

0671524070

9780671524074

OCLC:

10432479