Burgess, Anthony 1917-1993

Cyrano de Bergerac by Anthony Burgess( Book )

38 editions published between 1971 and 2009 in English and Danish and held by 1,553 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Rostand's famous play tells of the brilliant wit Cyrano, with a face marred by his huge nose, who composes love letters to help his friend Christian woo the beautiful Roxane, with whom Cyrano is secretly in love

Tremor of intent by Anthony Burgess( Book )

77 editions published between 1966 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

British agent is assigned to bring back a scientist who has defected to Russia and is hindered by any number of unusual characters

Flame into being : the life and work of D.H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess( Book )

29 editions published between 1985 and 1989 in English and held by 1,507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the life of the English author, D.H. Lawrence, and examines the development of his fiction and poetry

The end of the world news : an entertainment by Anthony Burgess( Book )

43 editions published between 1982 and 1996 in English and held by 1,486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

1985 by Anthony Burgess( Book )

13 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Inspired by and intended as a tribute to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Burgess' book is in two parts. The first is a series of essays and self-interviews (Burgess is the voice of the interviewer and the interviewee) discussing aspects of Orwell's book. The second is a novella set in 1985, seven years distant at the time of the novel's writing

The pianoplayers by Anthony Burgess( Book )

33 editions published between 1986 and 2004 in English and held by 1,391 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Following the death of her father, an irregularly employed pianist, Ellen Henshaw becomes a high-class prostitute in Paris during the 1930s and then founds a chain of schools to instruct men in the arts of love and music

Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess( Book )

13 editions published between 1965 and 2000 in English and held by 1,335 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Commentary on Joyce for the average reader

Finnegans wake by James Joyce( Book )

51 editions published between 1964 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,309 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This novel is about an innkeeper who lives with his family, cleaning-woman and barman just outside Dublin. It is written in a strange-looking language, but this sort of language is entirely appropriate for a dream, and dream is what our hero does, from the first page to the last. What does he dream about? The whole history of man, which is a perpetual cycle of falling and rising again. The Earwicker family is drawn into the rather unhandy and amateurish acting of this great human epic

The wanting seed by Anthony Burgess( Book )

80 editions published between 1962 and 2002 in 5 languages and held by 1,307 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious."

The doctor is sick by Anthony Burgess( Book )

77 editions published between 1960 and 2002 in 5 languages and held by 1,275 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a linguist, decides to escape from the hospital the night before his brain tumor surgery is scheduled and discovers a world of people exists outside his universe of words