Book Description
Discusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1976
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Discusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393346757
"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy…Honey for the Bears is a triumph." —Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609450847
At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393309430
Set in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A fictionalized historic account recalling the story of Jesus from his life to his death.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393315073
Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 1996-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393285723
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 dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846689192
In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature in its own right.Part two is Burgess' own dystopic vision, written in 1978. He skewers both the present and the future, describing a state where industrial disputes and social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance, security concerns and the dominance of technology to make life a thing to be suffered rather than lived.Together these two works form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most talented, imaginative and prescient writers. Several decades later, Burgess' most singular work still stands.
Author : Anthony Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 2003-01
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : 9780749006723
A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity. Sadoc, a dying shipping clerk, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity.
Author : Andrew Biswell
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780330481717
Anthony Burgess has attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is known to a wider audience as the author of A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a man for whom chaos and creativity, fact and fiction, existed in a complex and unique balance. This biography talks about this professional writer.