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[[Image:burgess99a.jpg|right|200px|thumb|1984 Simon & Schuster edition]]
[[Image:burgess99a.jpg|right|200px|thumb|1984 Simon & Schuster edition]]
[[Anthony Burgess]]'s book '''''Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice''''' ([[1984 in literature|1984]], ISBN 0-85031-585-9) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983.
[[Anthony Burgess]]'s book '''''Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice''''' ([[1984 in literature|1984]], ISBN 0-85031-585-9) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for the Yorkshire Post and writing over thirty. The list represents his personal choices. The title implies that, for a round one hundred, a novel by Burgess himself might reasonably be included In an interview with [[Don Swaim]] ([[http://www.wiredforbooks.org/anthonyburgess/ 1985 interview with Anthony Burgess]), Burgess reveals that it was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company, and written in two weeks.

Burgess was a famously prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for the Yorkshire Post and writing over thirty himself. This list represents his personal choices. The title implies that, for a round one hundred, a novel by Burgess himself might reasonably be included.


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1984 Simon & Schuster edition

Anthony Burgess's book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice (1984, ISBN 0-85031-585-9) covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for the Yorkshire Post and writing over thirty. The list represents his personal choices. The title implies that, for a round one hundred, a novel by Burgess himself might reasonably be included In an interview with Don Swaim ([1985 interview with Anthony Burgess), Burgess reveals that it was originally commissioned by a Nigerian publishing company, and written in two weeks.

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