Burgess, Anthony 1917-1993

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

31 editions published between 1985 and 2019 in English and held by 1,478 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 )

42 editions published between 1982 and 1996 in English and French and held by 1,451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The pianoplayers by Anthony Burgess( Book )

52 editions published between 1986 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,441 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

1985 by Anthony Burgess( Book )

15 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,420 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

Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess( Book )

15 editions published between 1965 and 2000 in English and held by 1,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Commentary on Joyce for the average reader

The wanting seed by Anthony Burgess( Book )

83 editions published between 1962 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 1,315 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world that overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world of spacelessness where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality ("It's Sapiens to be Homo"). This time of the near future is eventually transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without enemies

The doctor is sick by Anthony Burgess( Book )

80 editions published between 1960 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 1,281 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

Finnegans wake by James Joyce( Book )

50 editions published between 1964 and 1992 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,279 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

A mouthful of air : language, languages-- especially English by Anthony Burgess( Book )

13 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 1,224 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A survey of language, how it operates now, how it got to be that way, how it will develop in the future, Shakespeare's pronunciation, English newly generated abroad, everyday speech, and the place of English in the world family of languages

Honey for the bears by Anthony Burgess( Book )

82 editions published between 1963 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,165 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the Soviet Union, an antiques dealer from Sussex, and his wife, attempt to sell cheap dresses on the black market as a favor to a friend, and the husband finds himself trapped in the country with the police on his trail