Burgess, Anthony 1917-1993

A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
280 editions published between 1417 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 7,909 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates and alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile delinquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior

Earthly powers by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
70 editions published between 1980 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,668 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Burgess's ambitious study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, popular novelist and a Faustian priest. "

Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
46 editions published between 1907 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 2,059 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Blend of biography, anecdotes, speculations, critical commentary and personal insights

Ernest Hemingway and his world by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
14 editions published between 1978 and 1987 in English and Georgian and held by 1,838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A biography of one of the most widely-read 20th century American writers, with an assessment of the contribution he made to contemporary literature

Any old iron by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
35 editions published between 1989 and 1996 in 3 languages and held by 1,787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A story of survival in our century and the destinies of two families, one Welsh, and one Jewish, who are bound together by marriage

A dead man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
29 editions published between 1993 and 2010 in English and French and held by 1,747 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A novelization of the life of the 16th Century playwright, Christopher Marlowe, portraying him as a spy for Elizabeth I's government in its war with Catholics. Lots of color on Elizabethan London, the court, the intrigues, the theater, the slums. The author's last book before his death, it comes 30 years after his Nothing Like the Sun, a novel on Shakespeare

The kingdom of the wicked by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
33 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in English and held by 1,711 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Beginning with the crucifixion of Jesus and ending, seventy years later, with the destruction of Pompeii, the wminent novelist and critic limns a dazzling, intellectually provocative recreation of the beginnings of Christianity

Nothing like the sun, a story of Shakespeare's love-life by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
83 editions published between 1964 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,661 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
'Nothing Like The Sun' is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand ( Book )
29 editions published between 1971 and 2009 in English and held by 1,599 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

1985 by Anthony Burgess ( Book )
43 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 1,575 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