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Anthony Burgess


Born
in Harpurhey, England
February 25, 1917

Died
November 22, 1993

Website

Genre
Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

Influences
James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, Vladimir Nabokov, Evelyn ...more


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Seriocomic novels of noted British writer and critic Anthony Burgess, pen name of John Burgess Wilson, include the futuristic classic A Clockwork Orange (1962).

He composed also a librettos, poems, plays, screens, and essays and traveled, broadcast, translated, linguist and educationalist. He lived for long periods in southeastern Asia, the United States of America, and Europe along Mediterranean Sea as well as England. His fiction embraces the Malayan trilogy ( The Long Day Wanes ) on the dying days of empire in the east. The Enderby quartet concerns a poet and his muse. Nothing like the Sun re-creates love life of William Shakespeare. He e ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 854,089 ratings · 29,836 reviews · 360 distinct works • Similar authors
A Clockwork Orange
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The Wanting Seed
3.72 avg rating — 6,893 ratings — published 1962 — 8 editions
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Earthly Powers
4.13 avg rating — 3,406 ratings — published 1980 — 46 editions
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One Hand Clapping
3.83 avg rating — 1,735 ratings — published 1961 — 32 editions
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A Dead Man in Deptford
3.81 avg rating — 1,536 ratings — published 1993 — 36 editions
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1985
3.48 avg rating — 1,596 ratings — published 1978
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The Doctor is Sick
3.59 avg rating — 1,509 ratings — published 1960 — 17 editions
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Nothing Like the Sun
3.76 avg rating — 1,316 ratings — published 1964 — 43 editions
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The Long Day Wanes (Malayan...
3.99 avg rating — 926 ratings — published 1964 — 23 editions
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Honey for the Bears
3.51 avg rating — 1,049 ratings — published 1963 — 34 editions
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Series by Anthony Burgess

Inside Mr. Enderby Enderby Outside The Clockwork Testament, Or... Enderby's Dark Lady
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The Enemy in the Blanket Beds in the East The Long Day Wanes
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3.85 avg rating — 1,696 ratings

Quotes by Anthony Burgess  (?)
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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess
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“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
― Anthony Burgess
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“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
tags: dystopia
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Polls

November 2015 Revisit the Shelf. Reread Poll

1949, 1984 by George Orwell, 328 pages
 
  31 votes, 20.9%

1814, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages
 
  22 votes, 14.9%

1962, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 212 pages
 
  21 votes, 14.2%

1898, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. 120 pages
 
  13 votes, 8.8%

 
  12 votes, 8.1%

1869, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages
 
  11 votes, 7.4%

 
  11 votes, 7.4%

 
  10 votes, 6.8%

 
  10 votes, 6.8%

1869, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1392 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.7%

148 total votes
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