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Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A
Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat',
explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews,
articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by
Martin Amis 'It is a horrorshow story ...' Fifteen-year-old Alex
likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob,
kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the
State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his
re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an
exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of
exuberant invention which created a new language for its
characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as
Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the
teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original
typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the
enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at
Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in
the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial
education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his
Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books
have been published all over the world, and they include The
Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor
of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony
Burgess died in London in 1993. Andrew Biswell is the Professor of
Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the
Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His
publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess,
which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the
letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.
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Obscenity & The Arts (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess; Introduction by Andrew Biswell; Contributions by Germaine Greer
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A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and
composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set
in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the
fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer
who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural
world after the end of the war. Following the example of his
literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book
from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic
rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the
postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the
first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965.
This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew
Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess. --
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A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential
as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the
future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has
since become a classic of modern literature and the basis for
Stanley Kubrick s once-banned film, whose recent reissue has
brought this revolutionary tale on modern civilization to an even
wider audience. Andrew Biswell, PhD, director of the International
Burgess Foundation, has taken a close look at the three varying
published editions alongside the original typescript to recreate
the novel as Anthony Burgess envisioned it. We publish this
landmark edition with its original British cover and six of Burgess
s own illustrations."
WINNER OF THE PORTICO PRIZE 2006 Anthony Burgess has always
attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is
admired for his literary novels, but known to a wider audience as
the author of the ultra-violent shocker, A Clockwork Orange.
Burgess was a brilliant polymath, a composer, and a man for whom
chaos and creativity, fact and fiction, existed in a complex and
unique balance. Drawing on his fraught relationships with
publishers, friends and his first wife, as expressed in interviews,
unpublished writings, letters and diaries, The Real Life of Anthony
Burgess reveals both the professional writer and the private man as
he has never been seen before. 'The Real Life of Anthony Burgess is
the biography all Burgess fans have been waiting for and which the
great man himself richly deserves: revelatory, scrupulous, sincere
and fascinating' William Boyd, Books of the Year Guardian
'Biswell's absorbing new life . . . is a work of scholarship,
understanding and sympathetic portraiture' Observer 'He has shed
great light on a writer, his personality and his work. This is a
biography of the highest class' Herald 'As the first Burgess
biography of any consequence it is long overdue' Sunday Telegraph
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess was shortlisted for the inaugural
Glen Dimplex New Writers' Award.
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