Anthony Burgess

1985 is a novel by English writer Anthony Burgess. Originally published in 1978, it was inspired by, and was intended as a tribute to, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Abba Abba was published in 1977. It is English writer Anthony Burgess's 22nd novel. The theme is the last months in the life of John Keats. The sonnets of Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli that feature in the novel were translated by Burgess's Italian wife, Liana Burgess.

A Clockwork Orange, in het Nederlands vertaald als Boze Jongens, is een anti-utopische roman uit 1962 van de Britse schrijver Anthony Burgess. Het vormt de basis voor de gelijknamige filmbewerking uit 1971 door Stanley Kubrick. De roman wordt algemeen beschouwd als de opvolger van de grote Britse anti-utopische romans …

A Clockwork Orange, in het Nederlands vertaald als Boze Jongens, is een anti-utopische roman uit 1962 van de Britse schrijver Anthony Burgess. Het vormt de basis voor de gelijknamige filmbewerking uit 1971 door Stanley Kubrick. De roman wordt algemeen beschouwd als de opvolger van de grote Britse anti-utopische romans …

‘One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers… It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by …

A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English is a work on the subject of linguistics by Anthony Burgess published in 1992. Among the topics covered are: the mechanics of linguistic sounds; the development of the English language and its connections with other languages; the making of dictionaries; the …

Who, I ask you, wants to drag his bones out of the earth, reclothed in flesh which, in some foul magic of reversal, is regurgitated by the worms, in order that his eyes may see God? Who, I ask you, wants to live for ever? Sadoc son of Azor, a retired shipping clerk lying diseased and dying on the outreaches of the …

Any Old Iron, Anthony Burgess's epic updating of the Excalibur legend, was published in 1989. Among the historical figures fictionalized in the novel are Chaim Weizmann, A. J. Cronin, Winston Churchill, Éamon de Valera, Anthony Eden and Joseph Stalin. The novel is arguably one of the most important of Burgess's late …