Inside Mr Enderby

The first novel in Anthony Burgess’s satirical tetralogy about the life and adventures of the reclusive poet Enderby, begun in 1963 and completed in 1984.

Mr. Enderby is quite content with his life: he writes poems in an improvised bathroom-cum-study and has endless arguments with the housekeeper and the neighbors.

But everything changes when he meets Vesta Bainbridge, editor of a women’s magazine, at the annual poetry award ceremony—and suddenly, to his own surprise, he is drawn into a romantic relationship…

However, the muse is a jealous lover—and she will punish the traitor harshly…