Anthony Burgess

Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess is a brief overview of the field of linguistics. Without dealing specifically with any one language, it provides an introduction to semantics, phonetics, and the development of language. Burgess later incorporated most of Language Made Plain into the first half of A Mouthful of …

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 …

Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements is Anthony Burgess's fictional recreation of the life and world of Napoleon Bonaparte, first published in 1974. Its four "movements" follow the structure of Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, known as the Eroica. Burgess said he found the novel "elephantine fun" to write. …

Man of Nazareth is a historical novel by Anthony Burgess based on his screenplay for Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth. It is one of a trilogy of Burgess books with biblical themes, the others being The Kingdom of the Wicked and Moses.

L’Orange mécanique est un roman de science-fiction d’Anthony Burgess publié en 1962 et traduit en français en 1972. Burgess s’inspire d'un événement marquant de sa propre vie, sa première femme, Lynne, ayant été agressée par quatre G.I.s déserteurs en 1944. Le roman a été adapté au cinéma par Stanley Kubrick en 1971 …

L’Orange mécanique est un roman de science-fiction d’Anthony Burgess publié en 1962 et traduit en français en 1972. Burgess s’inspire d'un événement marquant de sa propre vie, sa première femme, Lynne, ayant été agressée par quatre G.I.s déserteurs en 1944. Le roman a été adapté au cinéma par Stanley Kubrick en 1971 …

F.X. Enderby, an eccentric British poet, is briefly separated from his muse, when he meets Vesta Bainbridge, a features editor, and marries her