Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of George Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable and shocking as A Clockwork Orange...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780393312836
A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780393928099
A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, A Clockwork Orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780413735904
'Anthony Burgess''s stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. A Clockwork Orange is the story of Alex and his teenage gang...more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780786711529
With A Dead Man in Deptford, Burgess concluded his literary career to overwhelming acclaim for his re-creation of the Elizabethan poet Christopher Marlowe. In lavish...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780099282723
A story which presents an interesting what-if proposition concerning two poets - the dying John Keats and the Roman-dialect poet Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli - who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821....more details Format:Paperback
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780099541424
Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781409021063
Tells the story of a rampant Irish artist who, in the early years of this century, goes rapidly to the bad, philandering at every opportunity...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780141182605
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780141037226
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is the shocking seminal novel that spawned one of the most notorious films ever made. Fifteen-year-old Alex and his thrill-seeking gang regularly indulge in ultra-violence...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:170
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780099442592
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed...more details Format:Book
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780099468646
Earthly Powers traces eighty- one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham- type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular, second- rate novelist/playwright...more details Format:Paperback Pages:656
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780141185682
Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece traces eighty-one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham-type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular...more details Format:Paperback Pages:672
The Eve of St Venus is a delightful fantasy, blending classical myth and farce. Displaying a high degree of verbal ingenuity and intelligence...more details Format:Paperback Pages:122
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780500260173
Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer to engage life to the fullest in order to write about it...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780749006723
A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity. Sadoc, a dying shipping clerk...more details Format:Paperback Pages:360
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780099437055
Little Wilson and Big God, the first part of Anthony Burgess's two-volume autobiography, tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement...more details Format:Paperback
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781446452554
An autobiography of Anthony Burgess. It tells the story of this disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780141187808
Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780749395926
'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class' Observer Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service.In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger...more details Format:Paperback
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780393315073
Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life....more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780749005122
One of Burgess's most acclaimed novels, Nothing Like the Sun has been out of print for over 10 years. An audacious and pacey romp through the life of William Shakespeare...more details Format:Paperback Pages:334
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780786706310
With film rights acquired by Francis Ford Coppola, this comic novel of instant riches is back in stock. From the author of A Clockwork Orange...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780786709724
Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography...more details Format:Paperback Pages:251
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781409018483
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. Whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco...more details Format:Electronic book text Pages:672
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780099541431
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:640
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780393316025
Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:260
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780393309430
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781151129383
Subtitle: In Xxx. Lectures Preached at Lawrence-Iury, London General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1651 Original Publisher: Printed by A...more details Format:Paperback Pages:102
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781164054795
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks...more details Format:Paperback Pages:812
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781172792191
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...more details Format:Paperback Pages:822
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781152064287
Publisher: London: Printed by A.M. for Tho. Vnderhill Publication date: 1655 Subjects: Justification -- Early works to 1800 God -- Righteousness Notes: This is an OCR reprint...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780393315080
Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781557834898
Anthony Burgess was the author of over 50 books, including his best known novel, "A Clockwork Orange." But Burgess always emphasized music as the ruling passion in his creative life. Largely self-taught in music...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780393004168
Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper back to England or risk losing his fat retirement bonus. As thoughtful as it is funny...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781907616013
A spy thriller with a villain who makes the Devil himself look like a saint, a beautiful girl hiding more than meets the eye and a host of other characters who change their personalities with alarming alacrity...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780099437062
Taking up where Little Wilson and Big God left off, You've Had Your Time is the second volume of Anthony Burgess's autobiography. It begins in 1959...more details Format:Book
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Anthony Burgess;Tom Hollander
ISBN:9780061170621
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark...more details Format:CD
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G V Desani;Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781590172421
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, "All About H. Hatterr" is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced. H. Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta. His story is of his search for enlightenment as...more details Format:Paperback Pages:316
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Anthony Burgess;Mary C Ingersoll Earl GIngersoll
ISBN:9781604730968
Although he did not start publishing until middle age, Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) had over sixty published books to his credit by the time of his death. One of them...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:190
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Anthony Burgess;Mary C Ingersoll Earl GIngersoll
ISBN:9781604730951
Although he did not start publishing until middle age, Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) had over sixty published books to his credit by the time of his death. One of them...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:190
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Gore Vidal;Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780375727054
A sweeping novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure-in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal's original manuscript-Creation" "offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world. Cyrus Spitama...more details Format:Paperback Pages:592
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Anthony Burgess;Kevin Jackson
ISBN:9781857546163
Demonstrating the full range and achievement of Anthony Burgess's poetry and verse, this collection contains extracts from his translations of the librettos of Carmen...more details Format:Paperback Pages:130
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Rex Warner;Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9781566630252
One of the few works of fiction in the 20th century to explore the dangerous yet glamorous appeal of fascism and the less than satisfactory answer of traditional democracy. A moral dialogue thrown into narrative form. It is humanity versus power...more details Format:Paperback Pages:316
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J G Ballard;Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780312278441
First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology...more details Format:Paperback Pages:316
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Alison Armstrong;Anthony Burgess
ISBN:9780882680811
With recipes for over 200 dishes mentioned in the writings of James Joyce, and with each recipe accompanied by a relevant passage from "Ulysses or "Finnegan's Wake...more details Format:Paperback Pages:252
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Burgess Anthony
ISBN:9780141192369
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Burgess Anthony
ISBN:9780241951446
'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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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Edmund Rostand;Edmond Burgess AnthonyRostand
ISBN:9781557832306
This acclaimed adaptation for the stage has garnered such reviews as: "Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied...Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Burgess Anthony
ISBN:9780099541394
'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writersa 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...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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ISBN:9781846572784
In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang...more details Format:CD-Audio