Anthony Burgess

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 …

'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.

‘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 …

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 …

Gli strumenti delle tenebre è un romanzo di Anthony Burgess del 1980. Il romanzo venne considerato tra i finalisti per il Booker Prize del 1980, poi vinto da Riti di passaggio di William Golding. Il giorno del suo ottantunesimo compleanno, Kenneth Toomey viene incaricato dall'arcivescovo di Malta di assistere al …

Un'arancia a orologeria, è un romanzo fantapolitico o distopico di Anthony Burgess del 1962. Riadattato per il grande schermo, Stanley Kubrick ne trasse la celeberrima versione cinematografica Arancia meccanica, distribuita negli Stati Uniti nel 1971 e nel resto del mondo nel 1972. Prima ancora del film di Kubrick, il …