Bøger af Anthony Burgess

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 reviewsEdited 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.

In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess.

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?

When, in 1963, Anthony Burgess finally started work on the novel he had long planned to write, a challenge lay ahead of him. There was never any doubt in his mind that his fictional biography of Shakespeare should be written in a language that was, if not exactly that of the late sixteenth century, then an 'approximation to Elizabethan English'. Nothing Like the Sun opens with a young WS (as he is known throughout the novel) at home in Stratford-upon-Avon. WS is desperate to escape the confines of a domestic life in which he is distracted from great thoughts by being called in for tea. He hears the 'world, the wide world crying and calling like a cat to be let in, scratching like spaniels.' We see him trapped into marriage with the older and possibly already pregnant Anne Hathaway, indentured as a tutor to the sons of a Gloucestershire magistrate, become a lawyer's clerk, a father, an actor, a writer and a lover. And then of course there is Henry Wriothesley, third Earl of Southampton as well as a certain Dark Lady... The novel is a triumph of imagination, but imagination fired by the most extraordinary research into Shakespeare's life. Only Burgess could have written this literary romp

Paul Hussey, an antiques dealer from Sussex and his American wife Belinda have arrived in Leningrad. Paul is trying to raise some money by illegally selling dresses to a people rich in cosmonauts but poor in consumer goods. But the logic of Soviet economics proves more dangerous than he ever imagined. Moreover, Leningrad turns out to be a city in which daylight dawns in the middle of the night. Anthony Burgess's hilarious and inventive comedy takes off when Paul learns some unnerving truths about his own sexual nature and that of Belinda. And now she's receiving the keenest attention in the hands of the Russian bears from the State Medical Service. Honey for the Bears is one of Burgess's most accessible novels, and is a strong candidate for the funniest. It is sheer reading pleasure.

EDICIÓN ESPECIAL 60° ANIVERSARIO DE LA NARANJA MECÁNICA. Esta es una edición completamente revisada del texto original de Anthony Burgess de La naranja mecánica, con un glosario de la jerga adolescente 'Nadsat', notas explicativas, páginas del texto mecanografiado original, entrevistas, artículos y reseñas, Editado por Andrew Biswell y con prólogo de Martin Amis. A Alex, de quince años, le gustan los latigazos de ultraviolencia. Él y su pandilla de amigos roban, matan y violan en su camino a través de un futuro de pesadilla, hasta que el Estado pone fin a sus desenfrenados excesos. Pero, ¿qué significará su reeducación? Un horror distópico, una comedia negra, una exploración de elección, La naranja mecánica es también un trabajo de invención exuberante que creó un nuevo lenguaje para sus personajes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Set 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.

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 Literaturhinweisen.

The Collected Poems of the acclaimed Manchester-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and composer Anthony Burgess.

My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who wants to know Joyce's work but has been scared off by the professors. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are always expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men.

'What can literature and music do for each other?' In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own personal experiences. -- .

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. -- .

Mozart and the Wolf Gang is a kaleidoscope of a book, which stretches even the bounds of Anthony Burgess's fictions.. With its sizzying swirl of formal and thematic invention, this slim book may strike one as something even more impossible that any of Burgess' earlier tours de force. -- .

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. -- .

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. -- .

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

The True Doctrine of Justification by Anthony Burgess is a theological treatise that defends the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone against several opposing views, including those of the Roman Catholic Church, Arminians, Socinians, and Antinomians. Burgess argues that justification is a legal declaration of righteousness by God, which is received by faith alone and not by any human effort or merit. He refutes the Catholic belief in the necessity of good works for salvation and the Arminian view that faith is a work that earns salvation. He also challenges the Socinian denial of the imputed righteousness of Christ and the Antinomian rejection of the moral law as a guide for Christian living.The book is divided into several parts, each addressing a different aspect of justification. Burgess draws extensively from Scripture and the writings of Protestant theologians such as Martin Luther and John Calvin to support his arguments. He also engages with the arguments of his opponents and provides detailed rebuttals.Overall, The True Doctrine of Justification is a thorough and rigorous defense of the Protestant understanding of justification by faith alone, and a valuable resource for those interested in the history of Protestant theology.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. This is the story of Alex and his teenage gang, "The Droogs", their life of rape and murder, and "ultraviolence", and the moral dilemma that arises when Alex is brainwashed into good citizenship.

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 new edition of Anthony Burgess's first novel, set in Gibraltar during the Second World War. Loosely based on Virgil's Aeneid, the book describes the anti-heroic army career of Richard Ennis, a thwarted composer. The introduction and notes describe the publishing history and the autobiographical context of this lost masterpiece. -- .

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 quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening. But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can''t seem to stop. And what he sees as the logical conclusion to his success isn''t something Janet can agree to. Burgess''s 1961 darkly comic satire of drab English consumerism is adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox. This edition was published to coincide with the US premiere at the Brits Off-Broadway Festival, at 59E59 Theatre, New York, in May 2015.