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Anthony Burgess

Before he became famous as the author of “A Clockwork Orange,” Anthony Burgess spent several years working as a teacher in British Malaya. He became fascinated by the culture and folklore of the region, particularly “hantus,” the Malayan word for ghosts of various--and equally unpleasant--types. In 1955, he was confronted by a “hantu” as sinister as anything in his most famous novel, and far stranger. Some years later, he provided an account of his eerie experience to Peter Haining, where it…

Anthony Burgess was a late starter in the art of fiction. He spent many years as a school teacher in England and Malaya before his first novel, Time for a Tiger, was published in 1956, by which time he was 39 years old. He had previously completed the drafts of two other novels, A Vision […]

The re-release of the Clockwork Orange film in the United Kingdom (on 5 April 2019) provides an opportunity to revisit the turbulent history of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic adaptation, which was first shown in New York in December 1971, with the British and European premieres taking place in January 1972. To many people in Britain, Kubrick’s […]

Anthony Burgess: It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going. #AnthonyBurgess #HumanNote

Unfinished manuscript found among Anthony Burgess’s papers was described by the author as ‘a major philosophical statement on the contemporary human condition’

Anthony Burgess

“If other writers can spend ten pages on the act of fellatio without embarrassing themselves, very good luck to them.”

He disparaged literary journalism in his fiction, but Burgess was a master of the op-ed feature and an exceptionally prolific and punctilious reviewer of books

Anthony Burgess Earthly Powers It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

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Read 140 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 198…

“Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures.” ― Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Signed First American Edition www.RareBooksFirst.com Rare Books from 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books Like us at www.FaceBook.com/1stEditions #RareBooksFirst #RareBooks #Quotes

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"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. W.W. Norton & Co., 1963. Science Fiction Book Club edition. No cover design artist listed.

A previously unseen “sequel” to Anthony Burgess’ dystopian classic “A Clockwork Orange” has been discovered, boxed up in the late author’s archives. The 200-page…

Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter. But in the streets of Castita's capital, where a wild religious festival is in full swing, a series of bizarre encounters - including his own repulsive doppelgänger (the son of a circus bird-woman) - and disturbing family revelations await Miles, who soon finds himself a willing victim of…

Anthony Burgess, polymath, slang dictionary compiler, creator of other world's and author of A Clockwork Orange selected his Top 5 Dystopian Novel for bis book Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 - A Personal Choice.