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Protagonista dei tre romanzi che compongono la trilogia burgessiana è Victor Crabbe, funzionario del ministero dell'istruzione inglese, che in Malaysia insegna storia nei college in cui si va formando quella che sarà la classe dirigente del nuovo stato indipendente. Con lui c'è la moglie, che rifiuta, quasi fosse in esilio, la vita nell'ex colonia britannica. A poco a poco però si lascia affascinare dal Paese e il fatto la avvicina al marito, ...

Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world. Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's q...

Het was de middag van mijn eenentachtigste verjaardag en ik lag in bed met mijn schandknaap toen Ali meldde dat de aartsbisschop me was komen opzoeken.' Met deze geniale zin begint de rijke en geestige roman Machten der duisternis (Earthly Powers), door critici algemeen Burgess' beste boek genoemd, en verkozen boven het bekendere A Clockwork Orange. Wie begint te lezen wordt vanaf het begin meegezogen in een boek dat zo veelomvattend is en zo ...

It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country.

Here is a midsummer night's dream of a novel, Anthony Burgess in a mood of comic whimsy. A baronet, Sir Benjamin Drayton, has received a consignment of stone statues of gods and goddesses, including Venus. A ring slipped on Venus's finger by a young man about to be married upsets a number of arrangements, including the wedding plans.

The playground of Mr. Burgess' humor is a city to which his hero, Denham, J. W., businessman, forty, British, returns on leave from the Far East to find the face of England hardened into a standardized grimace. He is appalled by his observations in all quarters of cheapness, shallowness, vice. He is appalled also by monotony. But monotony reigns only briefly. Soon Everett, the broken-down poet, and Winterbottom, the printer, have involved him ...

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Demonstrating the full range and achievement of Anthony Burgess's poetry and verse, this collection contains extracts from his translations of the librettos of Carmen, Oberon, and others, of verse dramas including Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King, and Chatsky, and his original musicals Trotsky's in New York!, Mozart and the Wolf Gang, and A Clockwork Orange 2004. Also included are his translations of the Roman dialect poet Giuseppi Belli, ...

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.

A rollicking, panoramic epic of 20th century literature by the author of "A Clockwork Orange". 'Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes' Martin Amis

Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery, things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London.

Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends who 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?