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Anthony Burgess


Born
in Harpurhey, England
February 25, 1917

Died
November 22, 1993

Website

Genre
Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

Influences
James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford, Vladimir Nabokov, Evelyn ...more


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 ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 855,556 ratings · 29,915 reviews · 360 distinct works • Similar authors
A Clockwork Orange
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The Wanting Seed
3.72 avg rating — 6,902 ratings — published 1962 — 52 editions
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Earthly Powers
4.13 avg rating — 3,409 ratings — published 1980 — 46 editions
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One Hand Clapping
3.83 avg rating — 1,734 ratings — published 1961 — 32 editions
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A Dead Man in Deptford
3.80 avg rating — 1,539 ratings — published 1993 — 36 editions
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1985
3.48 avg rating — 1,604 ratings — published 1978 — 44 editions
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The Doctor is Sick
3.59 avg rating — 1,509 ratings — published 1960 — 40 editions
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Nothing Like the Sun
3.76 avg rating — 1,319 ratings — published 1964 — 43 editions
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The Long Day Wanes (Malayan...
3.99 avg rating — 928 ratings — published 1964 — 23 editions
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Honey for the Bears
3.51 avg rating — 1,050 ratings — published 1963 — 34 editions
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More books by Anthony Burgess…

Series by Anthony Burgess

Inside Mr. Enderby Enderby Outside The Clockwork Testament, Or... Enderby's Dark Lady
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The Enemy in the Blanket Beds in the East The Long Day Wanes
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Quotes by Anthony Burgess  (?)
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“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
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Polls

October 2017 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

Madame Bovary by Gustave Fleubert, 329 pages, 1856
 
  57 votes, 17.9%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 174 pages, 1953
 
  57 votes, 17.9%

 
  38 votes, 11.9%

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages, 1962
 
  36 votes, 11.3%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 212 pages, 1962
 
  29 votes, 9.1%

 
  28 votes, 8.8%

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192pages, 1897
 
  27 votes, 8.5%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957
 
  18 votes, 5.6%

 
  17 votes, 5.3%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 400 pages, 1603
 
  12 votes, 3.8%

319 total votes
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