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1985 by Anthony Burgess
Category: Classics
Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, "1985" is a terrifying vision of the future by the 'great postmodern storehouse of British writing', Anthony Burgess. In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dial ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Socia ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Category: Classics
This is the fully restored fiftieth anniversary edition. It includes a foreword by Martin Amis. First published by William Heinemann in 1962, "A Clockwork Orange" is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. This special edition, compiled and edited by Andrew Bis ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess
Category: Classics
'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers...It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn' - "Irish Times". "A Dead Man in Deptford" re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pre ...Show more
A Long Trip to Teatime by Anthony Burgess
Category: Young Adult
Edmund Ironside, Edward the Confessor, Edward the Elder, Edward the Martyr . . . Edgar wearies of an endless history lecture on England's Anglo-Saxon kings and longs for an escape from the classroom--which he finds with a sudden plunge through a tiny hole in his desk. Now Edgar is on the shores of Easte ...Show more
A Shorter Finnegans Wake by Anthony Burgess (Editor); James Joyce
Category: Classics
Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are usually found in most lists of the great classics of the twentieth century. But, as Burgess points out in his introduction: "they are highly idiosyncratic books and 'difficult' books, admired more often than read, when read, rarely read through to the end, when read throug ...Show more
Byrne by Anthony Burgess
Category: Fiction
Burgess's posthumous tour de force scans the upheavals of the 20th century through the ribald adventures of its eponymous sub-Byronic hero. Vastly amusing, sparkling, stimulating . . . learned, witty, and wildly rhymed.--Atlantic Monthly.
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power--Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile o ...Show more
Flame into Being - The Life and Work of DH Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
Category: Reference
Burgess considered D. H. Lawrence to be one of the pillars of English literature and indeed a Modernist writer whose work had changed the face of the novel in the early 20th century. Flame into Being was first published in 1985 to mark the centenary of Law- rence's birth and gave Burgess the chance to w ...Show more