Anthony Burgess

1985 est un roman de l'écrivain anglais Anthony Burgess. Publié en 1978, il est inspiré par le roman de George Orwell 1984. 1985 est divisé en 2 parties. La première moitié du livre est une série d'essais et d'interviews au sujet de différents aspects du livre d'Orwell. La seconde partie est une nouvelle qui se …

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, One Hand Clapping is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life. The tragi-comedy of used car salesman Howard Shirley, his photographic brain, and the …

Honey for the Bears is a 1963 novel by Anthony Burgess.

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 …

A brilliantly funny spy novel from the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange. 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 …

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 …

Edwin Spindrift, linguiste, docteur – il y tient ! – en philosophie, quitte précipitamment l'Asie pour un service neurologique à Londres. Là, le personnel l'instrumentalise ; son voisin de lit égrène d'extraordinaires résultats de football et les cuisines servent du "ragoût de cervelle". Pis, sa femme, Sheila, espace …

Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.

The End of the World News is a 1982 novel by British author Anthony Burgess. Presented without chapter breaks, the plot weaves together three storylines. One follows Leon Trotsky on a journey to New York City shortly before the Russian Revolution of 1917. This story is written as the libretto of an Off-Broadway …