Anthony Burgess

You've Had Your Time, full title: You've Had Your Time: Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess, is the second volume of Anthony Burgess's autobiography. Preceded by Little Wilson and Big God and first published by Heinemann in 1990, it covers a period of 30 years, from Burgess's return to England …

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 …

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 …

‘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 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 …

Time for a Tiger is part one of Anthony Burgess's Malayan Trilogy The Long Day Wanes, "the first panel of a triptych" set in the twilight of British rule of the peninsula. Dedicated, in Jawi script on the first page of the book, "to all my Malayan friends", it was Burgess's first published work of fiction and appeared …

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 …