Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, The Doctor Is Sick, The Long Day Wanes, Honey for the Bears, and ReJoyce. He died in 1993.
Books by Anthony Burgess
The only American edition of the cult classic novel.More
“A brilliant novel . . . a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.” —New York Times
“Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel.” —TimeMore
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A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.More
"Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . "—The New York Times Book ReviewMore
"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 TimesMore
"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 TimesMore
A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.More
Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.More
“Shakespeare in his own stirring times . . . suffering or triumphant with the day’s news. . . . Brilliant.”—Times Literary SupplementMore
Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.More
A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.More
A brilliantly funny spy novel from the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.More
Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.More