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

Non-fiction

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

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; UK: Faber, 1963 as The World Bank. A Prospect) The Outriders: A Liberal View of Britain (UK: Faber, 1963) Cities (UK: Faber, 1963; US: Harcourt Brace, 1963) Places (UK: Faber, 1972; US: Harcourt Brace, 1973) Travels (UK: Faber, 1976; US: Harcourt Brace, 1976) Destinations: Essays from Rolling Stone (UK: Oxford University Press, 1980; US: Oxford University Press, 1980) Wales: The First Place with Paul Wakefield (UK: Aurum, 1982, reprinted 1998; US: Potter, 1982) Journeys (UK: Oxford University Press, 1984; US: Oxford University Press, 1984) Among the Cities (UK: Viking, 1985, Penguin, 1995 abr. ed. as From the Four Corners; US: Oxford University Press 1985) Locations (UK: Oxford University Press, 1992; US: Oxford University Press, 1992) O Canada! (UK: Hale, 1992; US: HarperCollins, 1992) Contact! A Book of Glimpses (2009)

History

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

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

Memoirs Conundrum (UK: Faber, 1974; US: Harcourt Brace, 1974) (personal narrative of Jan Morris's gender transition) Pleasures of a Tangled Life (UK: Barrie & Jenkins, 1989; US: Random House, 1989) Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (Faber, 2001) A Writer's House in Wales (National Geographic, 2002) In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary (Faber, 2018) Thinking Again (Faber, 2020)

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

Fiction Novels for adults Last Letters from Hav (UK: Viking, 1985; US: Random House, 1985; 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) Our First Leader: A Welsh Fable (Gomer Press, 2000) – a satirical uchronia set during World War II. Hav: A Novel (Faber, 2006, 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; US: Pantheon, 1962)

As editor The Oxford Book of Oxford (UK: Oxford University Press, 1978; US: Oxford University Press, 1978) My Favourite Stories of Wales (UK: Lutterworth Press, 1980) Ruskin, John, The Stones of Venice (UK: Faber, 1981; US: Brown, 1981, Faber, 1981) The Small Oxford Book of Wales (UK: Oxford University Press, 1982; US: Oxford University Press, 1982) Travels with Virginia Woolf (UK: Hogarth Press, 1993)

Miscellaneous Manhattan '45 (UK: Faber, 1987; US: Faber, 1987, Oxford University Press 1987) Over Europe (UK: Times Books, 1991; US: Mallard, 1992) – Jan Morris provided the text for this post-Cold War photographic project Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (UK: Viking, 1997; US: Villard, 1997) – 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) South America (The Guardian, 1961 or 1962) James Morris in Australia (The Guardian, 1963) Christ Church Oxford: A Brief History and Guide with James Ferguson (Christ Church, 2011) Portmeirion (Portmeirion Ltd., 2012)

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