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Anthony Burgess
A writer to know. A book to begin with.
English novelist, critic, and composer · February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993.
Anthony Burgess made language itself part of the adventure: invented slang, extravagant voices, and sharp musical rhythms. A Clockwork Orange asks what happens when the state tries to manufacture goodness by removing choice. His wider work moves through colonial Malaya, literary history, comic lives, and questions of belief; Earthly Powers is another expansive place to begin.
Books to explore
- A Clockwork Orange — find on Amazon ↗
- Earthly Powers — find on Amazon ↗
- The Wanting Seed — find on Amazon ↗
- The Complete Enderby — find on Amazon ↗
- Nothing Like the Sun — find on Amazon ↗
- A Dead Man in Deptford — find on Amazon ↗
More books to explore
- The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (1956) — find on Amazon ↗
- The Doctor Is Sick — find on Amazon ↗
- Right to an Answer — find on Amazon ↗
- One Hand Clapping: A Novel — find on Amazon ↗
- Devil of a State: A Novel — find on Amazon ↗
- The Worm and the Ring — find on Amazon ↗
- Honey for the Bears — find on Amazon ↗
- Inside Mr. Enderby — find on Amazon ↗
- The Eve of Saint Venus — find on Amazon ↗
- Language Made Plain — find on Amazon ↗
- Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life — find on Amazon ↗
- Tremor of Intent — find on Amazon ↗
- Here comes everybody — find on Amazon ↗
- A Shorter Finnegans Wake — find on Amazon ↗
- The Age of the Grand Tour (1720-1820) — find on Amazon ↗
- The Novel Now — find on Amazon ↗
- Beds in the East — find on Amazon ↗
- Enderby — find on Amazon ↗
- Enderby Outside — find on Amazon ↗
- Enemy in the Blanket — find on Amazon ↗
- Time for a Tiger — find on Amazon ↗
- Urgent Copy — find on Amazon ↗
- Shakespeare — find on Amazon ↗
- MF — find on Amazon ↗
- Joysprick — find on Amazon ↗
- English Literature: A Survey for Students — find on Amazon ↗
- Napoleon Symphony — find on Amazon ↗
- The Clockwork Testament or Enderby's End — find on Amazon ↗
- A Long Trip to Teatime — find on Amazon ↗
- New York (Great Cities) — find on Amazon ↗
- Beard's Roman Women: A Novel — find on Amazon ↗
- Moses: A Narrative — find on Amazon ↗
- Abba Abba — find on Amazon ↗
- Nineteen Eighty-Five — find on Amazon ↗
- Ernest Hemingway and His World — find on Amazon ↗
- Man of Nazareth a Novel — find on Amazon ↗
- The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows — find on Amazon ↗
- Two Tales of the Future — find on Amazon ↗
- This Man & Music — find on Amazon ↗
- The End of the World News: An Entertainment — find on Amazon ↗
- On Going to Bed — find on Amazon ↗
- Enderby's Dark Lady or No End to Enderby — find on Amazon ↗
- The Kingdom of the Wicked — find on Amazon ↗
- Flame into Being: The Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence — find on Amazon ↗
- 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 — find on Amazon ↗
- Little Wilson and Big God — find on Amazon ↗
- The pianoplayers — find on Amazon ↗
- But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop and Other Writings — find on Amazon ↗
- Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Selected Journalism, 1978-1985 — find on Amazon ↗
- They Wrote in English — find on Amazon ↗
- Any Old Iron — find on Amazon ↗
- The Devil's Mode — find on Amazon ↗
- You've Had Your Time — find on Amazon ↗
- On Mozart: A Paean for Wolfgang: Being a Celestial Colloquy, an Opera Libretto, a Film Script, a Schizophrenic Dialogue, a Bewildered Rumination — find on Amazon ↗
- The Long Day Wanes — find on Amazon ↗
- A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages ... Especially English — find on Amazon ↗
- Byrne — find on Amazon ↗
- The Complete Enderby : Inside Mr. Enderby, Enderby Outside, the Clockwork Testament, Enderby's Dark Lady — find on Amazon ↗
- One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings — find on Amazon ↗
- Ernest Hemingway — find on Amazon ↗
- Re Joyce — find on Amazon ↗
- Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems — find on Amazon ↗
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Sources & further reading: anthonyburgess.org/about-anthony-burgess ↗anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/the-great-late-anthony-burgess ↗
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