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Anthony Burgess


Born
in Harpurhey, England
February 25, 1917

Died
November 22, 1993

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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Seriocomic novels of noted British writer and critic Anthony Burgess, pen name of John Burgess Wilson, include the futuristic classic A Clockwork Orange (1962).

He composed also a librettos, poems, plays, screens, and essays and traveled, broadcast, translated, linguist and educationalist. He lived for long periods in southeastern Asia, the United States of America, and Europe along Mediterranean Sea as well as England. His fiction embraces the Malayan trilogy ( The Long Day Wanes ) on the dying days of empire in the east. The Enderby quartet concerns a poet and his muse. Nothing like the Sun re-creates love life of William Shakespeare. He e
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A Clockwork Orange

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The Wanting Seed

3.73 avg rating — 6,479 ratings — published 1962 — 53 editions
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Earthly Powers

4.13 avg rating — 3,263 ratings — published 1980 — 54 editions
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One Hand Clapping

3.83 avg rating — 1,658 ratings — published 1961 — 37 editions
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A Dead Man in Deptford

3.81 avg rating — 1,476 ratings — published 1993 — 34 editions
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The Doctor is Sick

3.59 avg rating — 1,440 ratings — published 1960 — 21 editions
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1985

3.49 avg rating — 1,465 ratings — published 1978 — 40 editions
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Nothing Like the Sun

3.77 avg rating — 1,277 ratings — published 1964 — 43 editions
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Honey for the Bears

3.51 avg rating — 1,010 ratings — published 1963 — 36 editions
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The Long Day Wanes (Malayan...

4.01 avg rating — 866 ratings — published 1964 — 35 editions
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“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
anthony burgess

“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
Anthony Burgess

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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