An Essay on Censorship
An Essay on Censorship is a lengthy letter, in verse, by Anthony Burgess addressed to his fellow novelist Salman Rushdie. Published in the wake of the 1989 Iranian fatwa against Rushdie and the Bradford book-burnings that followed, Burgess's letter has been compared to the Essay on Man of Alexander Pope.[1]
References
- ^ Biswell, Andrew (25 January 2003). "Artifice and Insemination". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
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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
