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The Real Life of Anthony Burgess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

The Real Life of Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess has attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is known to a wider audience as the author of A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a man for whom chaos and creativity, fact and fiction, existed in a complex and unique balance. This biography talks about this professional writer.

Critical Essays on Anthony Burgess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Critical Essays on Anthony Burgess

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The Right to an Answer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

The Right to an Answer

An English businessman returns from the Orient to find his country infested with greed, boredom, and corruption

New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

New York

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1976
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Discusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.

A Clockwork Orange
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

A Clockwork Orange

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-02-22
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Anthony Burgess reads chapters of his novel A Clockwork Orange with hair-raising drive and energy. Although it is a fantasy set in an Orwellian future, this is anything but a bedtime story. -The New York Times

Earthly Powers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

Earthly Powers

Anthony Burgess' epic work revolves around a writer, Kenneth Marchal Toomey, and the man he is linked to through family ties, Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Toomey, now in his 80s recalls the past.

1985
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

1985

In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right. Part two is Burgess' own dystopic vision, written in 1978. He skewers both the present and the future, describing a state where industrial disputes and social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance, security concerns and the dominance of technology to make life a thing to be suffered rather than lived. Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most talented, imaginative and prescient writers. Several decades later, Burgess' most singular work still stands.

Earthly Powers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 660

Earthly Powers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-10-18
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  • Publisher: Random House

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; 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. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.

Any Old Iron
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Any Old Iron

A story of survival in our century and the destinies of two families, one Welsh, and one Jewish, who are bound together by marriage.

You've Had Your Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

You've Had Your Time

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-03
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  • Publisher: Random House

After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles. It is the life of a man desperate to earn a living through the written word. He finds at first that writing brings little success, and later that success, and the obligations it brings, interfere with his writing - especially of fiction. There were vast Hollywood projects destined never to be made, novels the critics snarled at, journalism that scandalised the morally scrupulous. There is the éclat of A Clockwork Orange (and the consequent calls for Burgess to comment on violent atrocities), the huge success - after a long barren period - of Earthly Powers. There is a terrifying first marriage, his description of which is both painful and funny. His second marriage - and the discovery that he has a four-year-old son - changes his life dramatically, and he and Liana escape to the Mediterranean, for an increasingly European life. With this marriage comes the triumphant rebirth of sex, creative energy and travel - to America, to Australia and all over Europe.