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Excerpt from The True Doctrine of Justification: In Two PartsThe third Edition, with the Additionofthc Contents of cfigérmon, by a Friend of the Author.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origin...

Excerpt from The True Doctrine of Justification: In Two PartsThe third Edition, with the Additionofthc Contents of cfigérmon, by a Friend of the Author.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origin...

Anthony Burgess's 'hybrid' novel has been out of print in the UK for almost twenty years. Paul Howard's new edition restores the original text and demystifies Burgess's engagement with his Italian and English sources. -- .

Jetzt ein Tiger, erschienen 1956, ist die erste Romanveröffentlichung des britischen Schriftstellers Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) und zugleich der erste Teil seiner berühmten Malaya-Trilogie. Als Anthony Burgess 1954 als Lehrer nach Malaya kam, zeichnete sich die drei Jahre später erlangte Unabhängigkeit schon ab. Unklar war, wie es mit dem Land weitergehen würde: Gegen Ende der Kolonialzeit lebten dort neben den meist muslimischen Malaien zah...

Anthony Burgess's compact masterpiece about life, death, and Rome. This new edition offers a new introduction by Graham Foster, a restored text, detailed notes, and appendices of previously unpublished and rare material from the Burgess Archive. -- .

Puma - published 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. -- .

Müzigin bir süsten, bir oyuncaktan, bos hayatlarinizi süsleyen sesli bir duvar kagidindan daha fazla bir sey oldugu bilmem hic akliniza geldi mi krallar, kraliceler, asilzadeler Ilahiniza ulasmak icin dua etmek, tespih cekmek yetmez. Bu ancak müzikle olur - duanin dilinden daha yüksege erisen o dil, insan ruhunu ilahi varliga baglayan o narin zincir. Sizin icin bir kulak sekerlemesi, yutup unuttugunuz bir sufle, ardindan gegirdiginiz bir kadeh...

A new selection of Anthony Burgess's best reviews and articles.

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Anthony Burgess's funny, moving, autobiographical novel that brings to life the world of silent cinemas and music-halls of 1920s Manchester and Blackpool. Fully annotated and with a new introduction, this is an authoritative text for a new generation of readers. -- .

A Vision of Battlements has many claims on the attention of readers. The setting is Gibraltar, a place rarely visited by other novelists, the theme is not the frustration of a wartime garrison so much as the pain of looking forward to re-building and re-adjustment at the end of the war. But it is also gloriously comic. The hero is Richard Ennis, sergeant and musician. He is a young man of admirable intentions who never seems to hit it off with...

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What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?" - Das ist das zentrale Problem, das sich für den aggressiv-renitent-sympathischen Alex, Hauptfigur dieses SF-Buches, stellt, welches durch Kubricks geniale Verfilmung zu einem Kultbuch - nicht nur für Jugendliche - in aller Welt geworden ist. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete T...

The fully restored fiftieth anniversary editionForeword by Martin AmisFirst published by William Heinemann in 1962, A Clockwork Orange is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.

A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony toNapoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon'slife into a pattern borrowed-in liberty, equality, andfraternity-from Beethoven's Third "Eroica" Symphony, inthis rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgesshas pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that isliterary, historical, and musical.

Anthony Burgess' Kultroman von 1962 liegt seit 1992 in der Roten Reihe vor. Er erscheint in dieser Neuausgabe in revidierter Textgestalt, dem sogenannten »restored text«, der genau dem Typoskript von 1961 folgt und besonderes Augenmerk auf die von Burgess erfundene Jugendsprache »Nadsat« richtet.Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinwei...

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state under...

A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to pervade: lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish sy...