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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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Average rating: 4.01 · 882,322 ratings · 32,357 reviews · 359 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Clockwork Orange

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 792,124 ratings — published 1962 — 29 editions
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The Wanting Seed

3.72 avg rating — 7,074 ratings — published 1962 — 50 editions
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Earthly Powers

4.13 avg rating — 3,488 ratings — published 1980 — 46 editions
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One Hand Clapping

3.82 avg rating — 1,787 ratings — published 1961 — 33 editions
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A Dead Man in Deptford

3.81 avg rating — 1,570 ratings — published 1993 — 36 editions
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1985

3.48 avg rating — 1,675 ratings — published 1978 — 44 editions
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The Doctor is Sick

3.58 avg rating — 1,558 ratings — published 1960 — 39 editions
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Nothing Like the Sun

3.76 avg rating — 1,340 ratings — published 1964 — 25 editions
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The Long Day Wanes (Malayan...

3.98 avg rating — 956 ratings — published 1964 — 23 editions
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Honey for the Bears

3.51 avg rating — 1,080 ratings — published 1963
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More books by Anthony Burgess…
Inside Mr. Enderby Enderby Outside The Clockwork Testament, Or... Enderby's Dark Lady
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3.79 avg rating — 2,416 ratings

Time for a Tiger The Enemy in the Blanket Beds in the East The Long Day Wanes
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3.85 avg rating — 1,767 ratings

Quotes by Anthony Burgess  (?)
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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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Severance by Ling Ma
2019, 291 pages, 3.89 stars, Kindle $10.99, used staring at $7.99, at the library

"Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies halt operations. The subways squeak to a halt. HSoon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.

Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?"


 
  11 votes, 35.5%

Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
1949, 345 pages, 3.96 stars, Kindle $9.99, used over $10, may be at the library

"A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.'"


 
  8 votes, 25.8%

The Silence by Tim Lebbon
2015, 363 pages, 3.83 stars, Kindle $7.99, used starting at $7.99, may be at the library

"In the darkness of a vast cave system, cut off from the world for millennia, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed... Swarming from their prison, they multiply and thrive. To scream, even to whisper, is to summon death.

Deaf for many years, Ally knows how to live in silence. Now, it is her family's only chance of survival. To leave their home, to shun others, to find a remote haven where they can sit out the plague. But will it ever end? And what kind of world will be left?"


 
  6 votes, 19.4%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
1962, 213 pages, 4 stars, Kindle $9, cheap used, at the library

"A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to 'redeem' him, the novel asks, 'At what cost?'"


 
  6 votes, 19.4%

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