The Wanting Seed - Characters

Characters

  • Tristram Foxe — a history teacher
  • Beatrice-Joanna Foxe — Tristram's wife
  • Derek Foxe — Tristram's brother, becomes head of the Ministry of Infertility
  • Mr. Livedog — the term used for God, who is both good and evil. He makes masses of useless life and it is the job of Mr. Homo, his master, to eliminate it. The phrase 'god knows' is replaced by the phrase 'dogsnose'. Note that the first part of the name, "Live(d)", spelled backwards is "(D)evil" and the second part, "dog", spelled backwards is "God".
  • Roger Foxe - the deceased son of Tristram and Beatrice-Joanna
  • Mavis - Beatrice-Joanna's sister
  • Shonny - Mavis' husband and Beatrice-Joanna's brother-in-law
  • The Blessed Ambrose Bayley - an unfrocked priest whom Tristam first meets in a bar, then shares a prison cell with
  • The Right Hon. Robert Starling - the Prime Minister of the English-Speaking Union
  • Captain Loosley - a Population Police officer who distrusts Derek Foxe
  • The Right Hon. George Ockham - the new Prime Minister following the entrance into Gusphase
Works of Anthony Burgess
Novels
  • The Malayan Trilogy
  • Time for a Tiger
  • The Enemy in the Blanket
  • Beds in the East
  • 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 St. 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
Short story collections
  • The Devil's Mode
Poetry
  • Moses: A Narrative
  • Revolutionary Sonnets
Essays
  • An Essay on Censorship
  • Homage to Qwert Yuiop
  • One Man's Chorus
Critical works
  • Shakespeare
  • Joysprick
  • Ninety-Nine Novels
  • A Mouthful of Air
Operettas
  • Blooms of Dublin
Symphonies
  • Sinfoni Melayu
Autobiography
  • Little Wilson and Big God
  • You've Had Your Time

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