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From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork
Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and
darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The
Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which
spotlights the very best of our modern classics. As governments
struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food
shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further
limit family sizes, Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find
themselves facing dire choices. Their world transforms into a chaos
of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and
wars without anger.
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1985 (Paperback, Main)
Anthony Burgess
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In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two
responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp
analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new
light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears',
creating a critique that is literature in its own right. Part two
is Burgess' own dystopic vision, written in 1978. He skewers both
the present and the future, describing a state where industrial
disputes and social unrest compete with overwhelming surveillance,
security concerns and the dominance of technology to make life a
thing to be suffered rather than lived. Together these two works
form a unique guide to one of the twentieth century's most
talented, imaginative and prescient writers. Several decades later,
Burgess' most singular work still stands.
Anthony Burgess's brilliance as an essayist and his passion for
music are united in The Devil Prefers Mozart, the largest
collection of his music essays ever assembled.
First published in 1974, this novel is a semi-autobiographical
reflection on the author’s experience of having been the subject
of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange in
1971. This is the end of Enderby, Anthony Burgess’s finest comic
creation. Dyspeptic and obese, this is the account of his last day
as a visiting professor in New York, and his last day on Earth. The
Irwell Edition of The Clockwork Testament will provide new
information about the genesis of the novel, gleaned from a series
of drafts and typescripts recently discovered in the archive of the
International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) in Manchester, as
well as printing a deleted chapter for the first time in English.
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In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
Anthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work
for the stage is widely admired. In Two Plays, we see him
tackling major monuments of French and Russian theatre:Â The
Miser by Molière and Chatsky by Alexander
Griboyedov. Miser, Miser! is a bold reworking of Molière’s
classic comedy of 1668. Harpagon the miser is hoarding a pile of
gold, which he has buried in his garden. As he tries to sell off
his daughter, catch himself a beautiful young bride and outwit his
scheming household of clever servants, the comedy of errors
intensifies. Although the original French play is written in prose,
Burgess remakes it in a mixture of verse and prose, in the style of
his famous adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac. This
translation, discovered in the author’s archive, is the work of a
writer at the height of his powers, reinventing Molière for modern
audiences. Chatsky, subtitled ‘The Importance of Being Stupid’
is another verse comedy. The theme is that of the intellectual hero
who rebels against the smug, philistine society in which he finds
himself. First performed in 1833, Griboyedov’s play was so
heavily cut by Russian censors that it was barely recognisable. The
play is a virtuoso vehicle for male actors, and the source of many
famous quotations. It is also notoriously difficult to translate.
In Chatsky, Burgess remakes a classic Russian play in the
spirit of Oscar Wilde. It is a great feast of language and
invective. The complete texts of both plays are published here for
the first time. Two Plays confirms Anthony Burgess’s
reputation as a gifted writer for the stage, and as a translator of
great wit and sophistication. MISER, MISER! CASTING: 7 men, 3 women
CHATSKY CASTING: 9 men, 7 women
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.
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future,
where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the
central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically
inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends'
intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive,
A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and
the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the
controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and
Burgess's introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."
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Obscenity & The Arts (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess; Introduction by Andrew Biswell; Contributions by Germaine Greer
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Puma – disentangled from the three-part structure of The End of
the World News and published here for the first time in its
intended format – is Anthony Burgess’s lost science fiction
novel. Set some way into the future, the story details the crushing
of the planet Earth by a heavyweight intruder from a distant galaxy
– the dreaded Puma. It is a visceral book about the end of
history as man has known it. Despite its apocalyptic theme, its
earthquakes and tidal waves, murder and madness, Puma is a
gloriously-comic novel, steeped in the rich literary heritage of a
world soon to be extinguished and celebrating humanity in all its
squalid glory. In Burgess’s hands this meditation on destruction,
mitigated by the hope of salvation for a select few, becomes
powerful exploration of friendship, violence, literature and
science at the end of the world. -- .
A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte
that teases and reweaves Napoleon's life into a pattern borrowed-in
liberty, equality, and fraternity-from Beethoven's Third "Eroica"
Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony
Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance
that is literary, historical, and musical.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare contains the recognized canon of
the bard’s plays, and his sonnets and poems. The texts were
edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, making it one of the
most authoritative editions, recognized the world over for its
clarity and scholarship. Described in the Guardian on its first
publication in 1951 as ‘a symbol in the history of our national
culture’, the Collins edition of the Complete Works of William
Shakespeare, edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, has long
been established as one of the most authoritative editions of
Shakespeare’s works, and was chosen by the BBC as the basis for
its televised cycle of the plays. The book starts with two
specially written articles – a biography of Shakespeare by
Germaine Greer and a wide-ranging introduction to Shakespeare
theatre by the late Anthony Burgess. Each play is also introduced
by academics from Glasgow University, where Professor Alexander
undertook his editing. New to this edition is an internet resources
section, providing details of the most useful Shakespeare websites.
In addition, the invaluable glossary of over 2,500 entries
explaining the meaning of obsolete words and phrases (complete with
line references) has been expanded and redesigned to make it much
easier to use.
John Anthony Burgess Wilson (1917-93) was an industrious writer. He
published over fifty books, thousands of essays and numerous drafts
and fragments survive. He predicted many of the struggles and
challenges of his own and the following century. His most famous
book is A Clockwork Orange (1962), later adapted into a
controversial film by Stanley Kubrick. The linguistic innovations
of that novel, the strict formal devices used to contain them, and
its range of themes are all to be found too in Burgess's poetry, an
area of his work where he was at once most free and most
experimental. It is his least exposed and most complex and eloquent
area of achievement, now revealed at last in all its richness. His
flair for words, formal discipline, experimentalism, and fondness
for variousness mark every page.
The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious
films ever made, beautifully reimagined as part of the Penguin
Essentials series 'Every generation should discover this book' Time
Out ________________ In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt,
fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy
of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his
teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what
cost? Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A
Clockwork Orange is all of these. Dazzling and transgressive, this
frightening fable about good and evil asks the meaning of human
freedom. ________________ 'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time
'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose
between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating
effects of language' Daily Telegraph 'I do not know of any other
writer who has done as much with language . . . a very funny book'
William S. Burroughs 'One of the cleverest and most original
writers of his generation' The Times
'I'm working on a novel intended to express the feel of England in
Edward III's time ... The fourteenth century of my novel will be
mainly evoked in terms of smell and visceral feelings, and it will
carry an undertone of general disgust rather than hey-nonny
nostalgia' - Anthony Burgess, 1973 The Black Prince is a brutal
historical tale of chivalry, religious belief, obsession, siege and
bloody warfare. From disorientating depictions of medieval battles
to court intrigues and betrayals, the campaigns of Edward, the
Black Prince, are brought to vivid life. This rambunctious book,
based on a completed screenplay by Anthony Burgess, showcases Adam
Roberts in complete control of the novel as a way of making us look
at history with fresh eyes, all while staying true to the
linguistic pyrotechnics and narrative verve of Burgess's best work.
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D. H. Lawrence And Italy (Paperback)
D. H Lawrence; Edited by Michael Squires; Introduction by Anthony Burgess, Tim Parks
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In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence
transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.
Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the
people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to
the twilight of a way of life centuries old. In Sea and Sardina,
Lawrence brings to life the vigorous spontaneity of a society as
yet untouched by the deadening effect of industrialization. And
Etruscan Places is a beautiful and delicate work of literary art,
the record of "a dying man drinking from the founts of a
civilization dedicated to life."
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo
Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through
the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a
candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by
family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties.
In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the
essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.
‘It was a most surprising thing, to see those Streets, which were usually so thronged, now grown desolate’ In 1665 the Great Plague swept through London, claiming nearly 100,000 lives. In A Journal, written nearly sixty years later, Defoe vividly chronicled the progress of the epidemic. We follow his fictional narrator through a city transformed: the streets and alleyways deserted; the houses of death with crosses daubed on their doors; the dead-carts on their way to the pits. And he recounts the horrifying stories of the citizens he encounters, as fear, isolation and hysteria take hold. A Journal is both a fascinating historical document and a supreme work of imaginative reconstruction. This edition contains a new introduction, an appendix on the Plague, a topographical index and maps of contemporary London, and reproduces Anthony Burgess’s original introduction.
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