Jan Morris bibliography

This is a list of the literary works by Welsh writer and historian Jan Morris (1926–2020).[1]

Non-fiction

Travel

  • Coast to Coast (UK: Faber, 1956;[2] US: Pantheon, 1956 as As I Saw the U.S.A.;[1] 1956: winner of the 1957 Cafe Royal Prize)
  • Sultan in Oman (UK: Faber, 1957;[2] new edition by Eland in 2008; US: Pantheon, 1957 as Sultan in Oman: Venture in the Middle East)[1]
  • The Market of Seleukia (UK: Faber, 1957;[2] US: Pantheon, 1957 as Islam Inflamed: A Middle East Picture)[1]
  • South African Winter (UK: Faber, 1958;[2] US: Pantheon, 1958)[1]
  • The Hashemite Kings (UK: Faber, 1959;[2] US: Pantheon, 1959)[1]
  • Venice (UK: Faber, 1960, rev. ed. 1974, 1983, 1993;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1960, rev. ed. 1974, 1995;[1] winner of the 1961 Heinemann Award)
  • The Presence of Spain (UK: Faber, 1964, Faber, 1970 as Spain, Faber, 1979 rev. ed. as Spain; US: Harcourt Brace, 1964, Faber, 1979 rev. ed. as Spain, Oxford University Press, 1979 as Spain)[2][1]
  • Oxford (UK: Faber, 1965, Oxford University Press, 1978 rev. ed.; US: Harcourt Brace, 1965, Oxford University Press, 1978 rev. ed.)[2][1]
  • The Great Port: A Passage through New York (US: Harcourt Brace, 1969;[1] UK: Faber, 1970)[2]
  • The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage (UK: Faber, 1980;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1980)[1]
  • A Venetian Bestiary (UK: Thames & Hudson, 1982;[2] US: Thames & Hudson, 1982)[1]
  • The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country (UK: Oxford University Press, 1984; US: Oxford University Press, 1984; Viking, 1998 rev. ed. as Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country )[1][2]
  • Scotland: The Place of Visions with Paul Wakefield (UK: Aurum, 1986;[2] US: Potter, 1986)[1]
  • Hong Kong: Xianggang (UK: Viking, 1988, Penguin, 1990 rev. ed. as Hong Kong: Xianggang: The End of an Empire, Penguin, 1993 rev. ed. as Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire, Penguin, 1997 rev. ed. as Hong Kong: Epilogue to an Empire; US: Random House, 1988)[2][1]
  • City to City (Canada: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1990)[1]
  • Ireland: Your Only Place with Paul Wakefield (UK: Aurum, 1990;[2] US: Potter, 1990)[1]
  • Sydney (UK: Viking, 1992;[2] US: Random House 1992)[1]
  • The Princeship of Wales (UK: Gomer Press, 1995)[2][1]
  • A Writer's World: Travels 1950–2000 (Faber, 2003)[2]
  • Contact! Brief Encounters in a Lifetime of Travel (Faber, 2009)[2]

Essays

  • The Bedside Guardian 11: A Selection from the Guardian 1961-1962 (foreword/editor, 1962)
  • The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents (US: Pantheon, 1963, Minerva, 1968 as The Road to Huddersfield: The Story of the World Bank;[1] UK: Faber, 1963 as The World Bank. A Prospect)[2]
  • The Outriders: A Liberal View of Britain (UK: Faber, 1963)[2][1]
  • Cities (UK: Faber, 1963;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1963)[1]
  • Places (UK: Faber, 1972;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1973)[1]
  • Travels (UK: Faber, 1976;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1976)[1]
  • Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone (UK: Oxford University Press, 1980;[2] US: Oxford University Press, 1980)[1]
  • Wales: The First Place with Paul Wakefield (UK: Aurum, 1982,[2] reprinted 1998; US: Potter, 1982)[1]
  • Journeys (UK: Oxford University Press, 1984;[2] US: Oxford University Press, 1984)[1]
  • Among the Cities (UK: Viking, 1985, Penguin, 1995 abr. ed. as From the Four Corners; US: Oxford University Press 1985)[2][1]
  • Locations (UK: Oxford University Press, 1992;[2] US: Oxford University Press, 1992)[1]
  • O Canada! (UK: Hale, 1992;[2] US: HarperCollins, 1992)[1]
  • Contact! A Book of Glimpses (2009)

History

  • The Pax Britannica Trilogy
    • Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (UK: Faber, 1968;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1968).[1]
    • Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress (UK: Faber, 1973;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1974).[1] Covering the period 1837 to 1897
    • Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (UK: Faber, 1978;[2] US: Harcourt Brace, 1978).[1] Covering the period 1897 to 1965
  • The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannica (UK: Faber, 1982;[2] US: Faber, 1982, Doubleday, 1982)[1]
  • Stones of Empire: The Buildings of the Raj (UK: Oxford University Press, 1983; US: Oxford University Press, 1983) (with photographs by Simon Winchester)[2][1]
  • Battleship Yamato: Of War, Beauty and Irony (Pallas Athene, 2018)[2]

Biography

  • Fisher’s Face, or, Getting to Know the Admiral (UK: Viking, 1995; US: Random House, 1995)[1]
  • Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (Viking, 1999)[2]

Memoirs

Other

  • Coronation Everest (UK: Faber, 1958;[2] US: Dutton, 1958)[1]
  • The Preachers (US: St. Martin's Press, 1973)[1]
  • Ciao, Carpaccio! An Infatuation (Pallas Athene, 2014)[2]
  • Allegorizings (Faber, 2021) posthumously published[2]

Fiction

Novels for adults

  • Last Letters from Hav (UK: Viking, 1985;[2] US: Random House, 1985;[1] shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction)
  • A Machynlleth Triad with Twm Morys (UK: Gwasg Gregynog, 1993, Viking, 1993, Viking 1994 enl. ed. as A Machynlleth Triad = Triawd Machynlleth; US: Viking, 1993, Viking 1994 enl. ed. as A Machynlleth Triad = Triawd Machynlleth)[1]
  • Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable (Gomer Press, 2000)[2] – a satirical uchronia set during World War II.
  • Hav: A Novel (Faber, 2006,[2] an edition of Last Letters from Hav with a new introduction and concluding section entitled "Hav of the Myrmidons". Shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur C Clarke Award).

Children's books

  • The Upstairs Donkey, and Other Stolen Stories with Pauline Baynes (UK: Faber, 1962;[2] US: Pantheon, 1962)[1]

As editor

Miscellaneous

  • Manhattan '45 (UK: Faber, 1987;[2] US: Faber, 1987, Oxford University Press 1987)[1]
  • Over Europe (UK: Times Books, 1991;[2] US: Mallard, 1992)[1] – Jan Morris provided the text for this post-Cold War photographic project
  • Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (UK: Viking, 1997;[2] US: Villard, 1997)[1] – published in 2006 as Europe – An Intimate Journey
  • Thrilling Cities written by Ian Fleming. Jan Morris provided the introduction for the 2009 edition published by Ian Fleming Publications.

Booklets and pamphlets

  • The Story of the British Everest Expedition (Everest colour supplement, The Times, 1953)[2]
  • South America (The Guardian, 1961[1] or 1962[2])
  • James Morris in Australia (The Guardian, 1963)[2]
  • Christ Church Oxford: A Brief History and Guide with James Ferguson (Christ Church, 2011)[2]
  • Portmeirion (Portmeirion Ltd., 2012)[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 Over, William (1999). "Jan Morris". In Brothers, Barbara; Gergits, Julia Marie (eds.). British Travel Writers, 1940-1997. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 204. Gale. ISBN 978-0-7876-3098-0.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 Clements, Paul (2022). "Jan Morris Bibliography". Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides. Scribe Publications. pp. 7–9. ISBN 9781911617440.
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