New York
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the history of New York City and describes the city, its people and their way of life today.
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Earthly Powers
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781609450847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
The Long Day Wanes
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780393309430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in postwar Malaya at the time when people and governments alike are bemused and dazzled by the turmoil of independence, this three-part novel is rich in hilarious comedy and razor-sharp in observation. The protagonist of the work is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial school in a squalid village, who moves upward in position as he and his wife maintain a steady decadent progress backward. A sweetly satiric look at the twilight days of colonialism.
Honey for the Bears
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-08-05
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0393346757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy…Honey for the Bears is a triumph." —Kingsley Amis, New York Times 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 synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.
Man of Nazareth
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fictionalized historic account recalling the story of Jesus from his life to his death.
Nothing Like the Sun
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780393315073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.
The Wanting Seed
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1996-12-17
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0393285723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious.
Nineteen Eighty-five
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781846689192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 Kingdom of the Wicked
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Published: 2003-01
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780749006723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity. Sadoc, a dying shipping clerk, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity.
The Real Life of Anthony Burgess
Author: Andrew Biswell
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780330481717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnthony Burgess has attracted acclaim and notoriety in roughly equal measure. He is known to a wider audience as the author of A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a man for whom chaos and creativity, fact and fiction, existed in a complex and unique balance. This biography talks about this professional writer.
