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Christopher W Thurley
This book is a critical biography and literary cultural analysis of Burgess's interactions with the United States of America and American society, using newly discovered documents, archival research and Burgess's…
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Anthony Burgess
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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An introductory work on James Joyce reissued by Galileo in a new edition.
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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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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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Celebrating the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth, this book reveals the true relation that the British author had with France. It brings together a collection of papers by a selected…
A valuable collection of essays that look at Anthony Burgess’s relationship with Modernism and postmodernity
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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…
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…
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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Andrew Biswell
The most comprehensive life available of this major writer and extraordinary man
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…
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…
‘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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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.
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…
Jerome Gold
The protagonist, Sam Brave, is kidnapped by a gang of revolutionaries in retaliation for something bad that Sam did to them. If the revolutionaries are psychopathic, Sam is not the…
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…
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 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…
Yehia Abd El Azeem
Scientific Essay from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 74, University of Salford, course: Anthony Burgess and his Contemporaries, language: English, abstract: This essay demonstrates…
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.
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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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A comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life, from the best-selling, comedic Anthony Burgess.
An exposition of the topic of Christian unity in John 17 –
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…
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…
Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. In this…
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…
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…
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 sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.
Fine, sly, rich comedy. -New York Times Book Review
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…
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.
Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called elephantine fun to write.
Wildly inventive -Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
