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Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange is the shocking seminal novel that spawned one of the most notorious films ever made.
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Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.
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Anthony Burgess's brilliance as an essayist and his passion for music are united in The Devil Prefers Mozart, the largest collection of his music essays ever assembled.
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Edmond Rostand
The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess.
James Joyce
ANTHONY BURGESS' BRILLIANT ANALYSIS OF JOYCE'S FINNEGANS WAKE. Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are usually found in most lists of the great classics of the twentieth century. But, as Burgess points…
Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn’t just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven’s ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills.
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Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his…
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A valuable collection of essays that look at Anthony Burgess’s relationship with Modernism and postmodernity
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Puma - published for the first time in its intended format - is Anthony Burgess’s lost science fiction novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing…
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Although he did not start publishing until middle age, Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) had over sixty published books to his credit by the time of his death. Conversations with Anthony Burgess…
Anthony Burgess’s funny, moving, autobiographical novel that brings to life the world of silent cinemas and music-halls of 1920s Manchester and Blackpool. Fully annotated and with a new introduction, this…
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‘What can literature and music do for each other?’ In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own…
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A new edition of Anthony Burgess’s first novel, set in Gibraltar during the Second World War. Loosely based on Virgil’s Aeneid, the book describes the anti-heroic army career of Richard…
Anthony Burgess’s ‘hybrid’ novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard’s new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess’s engagement with his…
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Andrew Biswell
The most comprehensive life available of this major writer and extraordinary man
Murry Burgess
Meet Sparrow-a curious young birder eager to explore her neighborhood's surroundings-in this STEM picture book written by a professional wildlife ornithologist.
Anthony Burgess’s compact masterpiece about life, death, and Rome. This new edition offers a new introduction by Graham Foster, a restored text, detailed notes, and appendices of previously unpublished and…
This series brings together the disciplines of sociology and literature. It looks at a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue that is reflected in it…
Jim Clarke
The book is the first full-length text on Anthony Burgess’s fiction in a generation, and offers a radical and innovative way of understanding the extensive literary achievements of one of…
This book, taking an interdisciplinary approach, proposes a new insight into the relationship between literature and music through the prism of Anthony Burgess’s works and those of his spiritual fathers…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Paul Phillips
Examines the musical side of Anthony Burgess, an astonishingly prolific and talented composer, revealing how his lifelong involvement in music is an essential key toward understanding his life and work.
Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru…
There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy…Honey for the Bears is a triumph. -Kingsley Amis, New York…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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An exposition of the topic of Christian unity in John 17 –
A brilliant novel … a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds. -New York Times Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker…
Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called elephantine fun to write.
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A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.
Revolutionary Sonnets is as daring, original and inventive as the name suggests. The work explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering…
The playground of Mr. Burgess’ humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face…
Here is a midsummer night’s dream of a novel, Anthony Burgess in a mood of comic whimsy. A baronet, Sir Benjamin Drayton, has received a consignment of stone statues of…
A comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life, from the best-selling, comedic Anthony Burgess.
These are Anthony Burgess’s candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling…
The second volume of Burgess’s autobiography begins in 1959 with the author’s return to England from Brunei and - after the mistaken prognosis which gave him a year to live…
Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan - a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents…
Among Shakespeare’s many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal…
A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.
Whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and…
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
‘Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. Through Crabbe’s rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays…
Anthony Burgess’s stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. This is the story of Alex and his teenage gang, The Droogs , their life…
A novel as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago.
Fine, sly, rich comedy. -New York Times Book Review
