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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ə s /; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was a British writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. [3]
Anthony Burgess has 302 books on Goodreads with 1799359 ratings. Anthony Burgess’s most popular book is A Clockwork Orange.
Nov 22, 1993 · 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 ...
Anthony Burgess (born February 25, 1917, Manchester, England—died November 22, 1993, London) was an English novelist, critic, and man of letters whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combine wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre.
His work as a literary journalist, and as a frequent contributor to television and radio programmes, began in 1961. The following decade was prolific, with Burgess publishing another five novels before 1970, as well as a variety of critical works, including his shortened edition of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
A Clockwork Orange is Anthony Burgess’s most famous novel and its impact on literary, musical and visual culture has been extensive. The novel is concerned with the conflict between the individual and the state, the punishment of young criminals, and the possibility or otherwise of redemption.
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Anthony Burgess (1917-93) was an English novelist, critic, and man of letters whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combine wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre. His A Clockwork Orange (1962; filmed 1971) made his reputation as a novelist of comic and mordant power.
Anthony Burgess’ sweeping historical fiction is a dramatic tour de force that often surprises and sometimes shocks, but never fails to entertain.
Jan 29, 2024 · British author Anthony Burgess was inspired to write his best-known novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962), by the uncivil drift that he perceived among the youth of his time.
