Shorter Ulysses

Anthony Burgess

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Miscellaneous
01 October 2025

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Fiction & Literature

This volume is a major event in both the James Joyce and Anthony Burgess literary annals. It not only marks the first publication of Burgess's Shorter Ulysses, which was only recently discovered in the Burgess archives, but also the first republication this century of Burgess's extraordinary musical play Blooms of Dublin, based of course on Ulysses. The play has not been available in print for 38 years. Indeed it was only once performed (but as a radio production) on the centenary of Joyce's birth on February 2nd 1982.

Burgess's A Shorter Finnegans Wake, published in 1966, is still much loved and probably enjoyed more than Joyce's full length--and very difficult--novel. A Shorter Ulysses follows the same formula of being both an abridgement of the text (actually quite an intense one) and the provision of comments interspersed within the text.

A Shorter Ulysses is introduced by Burgess's biographer and Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Andrew Biswell. It also contains Burgess's foreword to the BCA edition of Ulysses published in 1981-- a two thousand word piece which manages to capture the very essence of Joyce's masterwork and provides a perfect introduction to the novel, particularly for new readers.

So, within these pages, there is a feast for Joyce and Burgess scholars as well as a totally accessible gateway to Ulysses for readers who perhaps have yet to dive into the deep waters of one of the most iconic--and of course controversial--novels of modern times.

AUTHOR: Anthony Burgess (d. 1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). Throughout his career wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 250 other musical works, and thousands of essays, articles and reviews. Burgess was a lifelong scholar of Joyce and his book, Here Comes Everybody (1964), the first of his critical books about Joyce, was called by the Observer, ""the best study of Joyce that I have ever read.""

Edited by: Anthony Burgess
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 51mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9781915530844
ISBN 10: 1915530849
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Anthony Burgess (d. 1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). Throughout his career wrote thirty-three novels, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 250 other musical works, and thousands of essays, articles and reviews. Burgess was a lifelong scholar of Joyce and his book, Here Comes Everybody (1964), the first of his critical books about Joyce, was called by the Observer, ""the best study of Joyce that I have ever read.""

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