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Anthony Burgess


Born
in Harpurhey, England
February 25, 1917

Died
November 22, 1993

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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.

Anthony Burgess was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also a librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Manchester, he lived for long periods in Southeast Asia, the USA and Mediterranean Europe as well as in England. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East; the Enderby quartet of novels about a poet and his muse; Nothing Like the Sun, a recreation of Shakespeare's love-life; A Clockwork Orange, an exploration of the nature of evil; and Earthly Powers, a panoramic saga of the 20th cent ...more

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A Clockwork Orange
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The Wanting Seed
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Earthly Powers
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One Hand Clapping
3.84 avg rating — 1,580 ratings — published 1961 — 37 editions
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A Dead Man in Deptford
3.82 avg rating — 1,400 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
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The Doctor is Sick
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Nothing Like the Sun
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Honey for the Bears
3.51 avg rating — 963 ratings — published 1963 — 33 editions
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The Long Day Wanes: A Malay...
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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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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess
tags: alone, laugh, sleep
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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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