Anthony Burgess was an author and a composer who was born on February 24, 1917, and died on November 22, 1993. Anthony Burgess has written many, many books on many subjects but his most famous work is A Clockwork Orange. This fame has been attributed to the fact that the story was dramatized in film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971. This brought Burgess attention, but some of that attention was unwarranted and unwanted. He said "the film made it easy for readers of the book to misunderstand what it was about, and the misunderstanding will pursue me till I die." Anthony Burgess was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 1959 and wrote 5 novels in 12 months in order to provide for his wife who he believed was going to become a widow. The tables turned when it happened that his diagnosis was wrong. Llewela, his wife, died in 1968, while Burgess himself, went on to live until 1993.
Book Review:Once in the hands of Attia, then in that of Arthur, looted by the Nazis at Monte Cassino, seized by the Soviets to be exhibited in Leningrad, King Arthur's Excalibur is the flashing blade that hangs over the fates of men and women caught up in the chaos of history.
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Book Review:Burgess portrays Elizabethan London so that you feel you are there yourself. Not that you would want to be, the street executions, the acrid smells, and the general lack of respect for humanity is repellent. But Burgess tells it like it was.
Book Review:A novel about the future where the population has become so large as to be unmanageable.
Book Review:Anthony Burgess`s nightmare vision of the future where youth culture is in revolt. Fifteen year-old Alex embarks on a frenzy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Lex is jailed and the state tries to rehabilitate him.
Book Review:An enthralling, epic narrative that spans six decades, spotlighting some of the most vivid events and characters of our time.
Book Review:Burgesss`s reputation as a novelist is assured but the title of this book refers more to his journalistic writings than his novels. He has written many thousands of words and has collected some of the best in this volume.