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Faith Seeking Assurance (Paperback): Anthony Burgess Faith Seeking Assurance (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess; Edited by Joel R Beeke
R315 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R55 (17%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days
The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated from the Errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and More... The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated from the Errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and More Especially Antinomians - in Xxx Lectures Preached at Lawrence-Iury, London (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The True Doctrine of Justification - In two Parts (Hardcover): Anthony Burgess The True Doctrine of Justification - In two Parts (Hardcover)
Anthony Burgess
R1,308 Discovery Miles 13 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated, From the Errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and More... The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated, From the Errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and More Especially Antinomians - In Xxx. Lectures Preached at Lawrence-Iury, London (Hardcover)
Anthony Burgess
R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback, New Ed): Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (Paperback, New Ed)
Anthony Burgess; Introduction by Blake Morrison 3
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R245 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R53 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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?

1985 (Paperback, Main): Anthony Burgess 1985 (Paperback, Main)
Anthony Burgess
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R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End - By Anthony Burgess (Hardcover): Ákos Farkas The Clockwork Testament or: Enderby's End - By Anthony Burgess (Hardcover)
Ákos Farkas; Anthony Burgess
R2,197 Discovery Miles 21 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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. -- .

A Clockwork Orange - Restored Edition (Paperback): Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange - Restored Edition (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess; Edited by Andrew Biswell 1
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R271 R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Save R50 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Devil Prefers Mozart - On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993: Anthony Burgess The Devil Prefers Mozart - On Music and Musicians, 1962-1993
Anthony Burgess; Edited by Paul Phillips
R736 R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Save R140 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Wanting Seed (Paperback): Anthony Burgess The Wanting Seed (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess
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R245 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R53 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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.

A Clockwork Orange (Paperback, Re-issue): Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (Paperback, Re-issue)
Anthony Burgess 1
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R245 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R53 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

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

Chatsky & Miser, Miser! Two Plays by Anthony Burgess: Anthony Burgess Chatsky & Miser, Miser! Two Plays by Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess; Alexander Griboyedov, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière
R499 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R95 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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: 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

Obscenity & The Arts (Paperback): Anthony Burgess Obscenity & The Arts (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess; Introduction by Andrew Biswell; Contributions by Germaine Greer
R323 R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Save R53 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback, Critical edition): Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (Paperback, Critical edition)
Anthony Burgess; Edited by Mark Rawlinson
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R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, A Clockwork Orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. Anthony Burgess takes us on a journey to a nightmarish future where sociopathic criminals rule the night. Brilliantly told in harsh invented slang by the novel's main character and merciless droog, fifteen-year-old Alex, this influential novel is now available in a student edition. The Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange is based on the first British edition and includes Burgess's original final chapter. It is accompanied by Mark Rawlinson's preface, explanatory annotations, and textual notes. A glossary of the Russian-origin terms that inspired Alex's dialect is provided to illustrate the process by which Burgess arrived at the distinctive style of this novel. "Backgrounds and Contexts" presents a wealth of materials chosen by the editor to enrich the reader's understanding of this unforgettable work, many of them by Burgess himself. Burgess's views on writing A Clockwork Orange, its philosophical issues, and the debates over the British edition versus the American edition and the novel versus the film adaptation are all included. Related writings that speak to some of the novel's central issues-youthful style, behavior modification, and art versus morality-are provided by Paul Rock and Stanley Cohen, B. F. Skinner, John R. Platt, Joost A. M. Meerloo, William Sargent, and George Steiner. "Criticism" is divided into two sections, one addressing the novel and the other Stanley Kubrick's film version. Five major reviews of the novel are reprinted along with a wide range of scholarly commentary, including, among others, David Lodge on the American reader; Julie Carson on linguistic invention; Zinovy Zinik on Burgess and the Russian language; Geoffrey Sharpless on education, masculinity, and violence; Shirley Chew on circularity; Patrick Parrinder on dystopias; Robbie B. H. Goh on language and social control; and Steven M. Cahn on freedom. A thorough analysis of the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange is provided in reviews by Vincent Canby, Pauline Kael, and Christopher Ricks; in Philip Strick and Penelope Houston's interview with Stanley Kubrick; and in interpretive essays by Don Daniels, Alexander Walker, Philip French, Thomas Elsaesser, Tom Dewe Mathews, and Julian Petley. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Puma - By Anthony Burgess (Hardcover): Paul Wake Puma - By Anthony Burgess (Hardcover)
Paul Wake; Anthony Burgess
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R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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. -- .

Cyrano de Bergerac (Paperback, New Ed): Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac (Paperback, New Ed)
Edmond Rostand; Translated by Anthony Burgess
R383 R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Save R83 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The nineteenth-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously, in an acclaimed English translation by Anthony Burgess. This translation of Edmond Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Barbican Theatre, London, in July 1983, with Derek Jacobi as Cyrano. Burgess's translation was subsequently used as the basis of the sub-titles for the 1990 film version of Cyrano de Bergerac starring Gerard Depardieu.

A Clockwork Orange (Paperback): Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess
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R388 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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."

Napoleon Symphony - A Novel in Four Movements (Paperback): Anthony Burgess Napoleon Symphony - A Novel in Four Movements (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess
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R391 R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Save R57 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

A Clockwork Orange (Hardcover, Restored Text): Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (Hardcover, Restored Text)
Anthony Burgess; Edited by Andrew Biswell
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R709 R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Save R116 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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."

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (Paperback, 1st Picador USA ed): J.G. Ballard The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard (Paperback, 1st Picador USA ed)
J.G. Ballard; Introduction by Anthony Burgess, Burges
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R535 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R82 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.

Collected Poems (Paperback): Anthony Burgess Collected Poems (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess; Edited by Jonathan Mann
R753 R615 Discovery Miles 6 150 Save R138 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Re Joyce (Paperback): Anthony Burgess Re Joyce (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess
R531 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R63 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A great and inventive writer enjoys himself immensely in discussing and explaining perhaps the most inventive and important writer of the twentieth century. Vigorous, humorous, and perceptive, Anthony Burgess's commentary is an excellent introduction and a valuable companion to reading Joyce.

The Black Prince - Adapted from an original script by Anthony Burgess (Paperback, 2nd edition): Adam Roberts, Anthony Burgess The Black Prince - Adapted from an original script by Anthony Burgess (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Adam Roberts, Anthony Burgess
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R304 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R75 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'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.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - The Alexander Text (Paperback, New Alexander Text edition): William Shakespeare The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - The Alexander Text (Paperback, New Alexander Text edition)
William Shakespeare; Contributions by Germaine Greer, Anthony Burgess; Introduction by Peter Ackroyd; Edited by Prof. Peter Alexander
R515 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R67 (13%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated, From the Errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and More... The True Doctrine of Justification Asserted and Vindicated, From the Errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and More Especially Antinomians - In Xxx. Lectures Preached at Lawrence-Iury, London (Paperback)
Anthony Burgess
R627 Discovery Miles 6 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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