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Anthony Burgess

Born

in Harpurhey, England

February 25, 1917

Died

November 22, 1993

Website

http://www.anthonyburgess.org/

Genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 877,366 ratings · 31,835 reviews · 357 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 787,646 ratings — published 1962 — 228 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wanting Seed 3.72 avg rating — 7,038 ratings — published 1962 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earthly Powers 4.13 avg rating — 3,471 ratings — published 1980 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Hand Clapping 3.83 avg rating — 1,776 ratings — published 1961 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dead Man in Deptford 3.81 avg rating — 1,565 ratings — published 1993 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1985 3.48 avg rating — 1,657 ratings — published 1978 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doctor is Sick 3.58 avg rating — 1,545 ratings — published 1960 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Like the Sun 3.76 avg rating — 1,335 ratings — published 1964 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honey for the Bears 3.51 avg rating — 1,075 ratings — published 1963 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Day Wanes (Malayan Trilogy #1-3) 3.99 avg rating — 944 ratings — published 1964	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Anthony Burgess

Enderby (4 books)
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3.80 avg rating — 2,405 ratings

The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (4 books)
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3.85 avg rating — 1,740 ratings

Quotes by Anthony Burgess (?)

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”
― anthony burgess

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

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

tags: dystopia

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October 2016 Revisit the Shelf Poll

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 273 pages, 1818

28 votes, 17.6%

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, 457, 1967

24 votes, 15.1%

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 507 pages, 1814

19 votes, 11.9%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages, 1943

18 votes, 11.3%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1859

14 votes, 8.8%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 192 pages, 1962

12 votes, 7.5%

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 489 pages, 1859

11 votes, 6.9%

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1463 pages, 1862

9 votes, 5.7%

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, 144 pages, 1886

8 votes, 5.0%

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 752 pages, 1921

6 votes, 3.8%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages, 1951

6 votes, 3.8%

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 982 pages, 1615

4 votes, 2.5%

159 total votes

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