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  1. Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess, 2002-02-09
  2. A Dead Man in Deptford (Burgess, Anthony) by Anthony Burgess, 2003-03
  3. The Real Life of Anthony Burgess by Andrew Biswell, 2007-04-01
  4. Joysprick: Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (Language Library) by Anthony Burgess, 1979-07-01
  5. Honey for the Bears (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess, 1996-05-17
  6. The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library) by Anthony Burgess, 1993-02-17
  7. One Hand Clapping: A Novel by Anthony Burgess, 1999-07-01
  8. The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess, 1996-12-17
  9. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1986-11
  10. Man of Nazareth by Anthony Burgess, 1982-03
  11. Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess, 2006
  12. Re Joyce by Anthony Burgess, 2000-06
  13. Nothing Like the Sun (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess, 1996-12-17
  14. Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess, 2004-05-06

1. Anthony Burgess - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist,
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2. Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess Biography and Reviews at the Bohemian Ink.
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Born 25th February 1917. The author who will always be remembered for his eighth book, The Clockwork orange, was born Jack Wilson in a small house in Harpurhey, the son of a bookkeeper and part-time pianist, and the musician/dancer he met at the Ardwick Empire. When he was a baby he was found lying in his cot with his mother and sister dead beside him, both victims of Spanish flu. Burgess went to Bishop Bilsborrow Primary School, Moss Side, Xavarian College, and Manchester University, spent six years as a war-time soldier, and then went into education, eventually becoming education officer in Malaya and Brunei. Invalided at home in 1959 with a terminal illness, he became a professional writer in the hope that in his final year he would provide some security for his wife. The medical diagnosis was wrong, and Burgess stayed with his new carreer, writing more than 30 novels and other books. This prolific and often controversial writer once created a storm when he returned to his native city and said: "As a piece of civic planning, or rather unplanning, I think it's terrible." stuart@play.dtc.co.uk

3. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was a diversely talented Englishman whose reputation, lamentably, rests almost exclusively on his bestknown (and his least favorite) work,
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Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess was a diversely talented Englishman whose reputation, lamentably, rests almost exclusively on his best-known (and his least favorite) work, the novel A Clockwork Orange . The 1962 futuristic novel, an impassioned yet even-handed plea for the necessity of human free will, stirred up controversy with its ultra-violent content narrated largely through a Russian-influenced slang of Burgess's invention, "nadsat." The 1971 film version by Stanley Kubrick provoked enough "copycat" crimes - a great irony, considering both the book and film decry unconscious, deterministic acts, yet tolerate evil so long as it is willfully chosen - that Kubrick banned the showing of it in the United Kingdom in 1973 (only recently was the ban repealed). But Burgess was a far more complete artist than A Clockwork Orange suggests. Born John Anthony Burgess Wilson on Feb. 25, 1917, in Manchester, England, to Catholic parents, his mother died of the flu when he was two, and he was brought up by his aunt and later his stepmother. He studied English at Xaverian College and Manchester University and, after graduation in 1940, served in the British Army Education Corps during World War II as the musical director of a special services unit, entertaining troops in Europe. He was an education officer in Malaya and Brunei from 1954 to 1959, adding to the eventual total of nine languages in which he was fluent.

4. Anthony Burgess - Wikiquote
Anthony Burgess (191793). English writer whose novels include the Malayan trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, the Enderby cycle, Nothing Like The Sun,
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    'East? They wouldn’t know the bloody East if they saw it. Not if you was to hand it to them on a plate would they know it was the East. That’s where the East is, there.' He waved his hand wildly into the black night. 'Out there, west. You wasn’t there, so you wouldn’t know. Now I was. Palestine Police from the end of the war till we packed up. That was the East. You was in India, and that’s not the East any more than this is. So you know nothing about it either. So you needn’t be talking.' Nabby Adams, supine on the bed, grunted. It was four o’clock in the morning and he did not want to be talking. He had had a confused coloured dream about Bombay, shot with sharp pangs of unpaid bills. Over it all had brooded thirst, thirst for a warmish bottle of Tiger beer. Or Anchor. Or Carlsberg. He said, 'Did you bring any beer back with you?'

5. Anthony Burgess@Everything2.com
Best known for his eighth book, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess was an English author, critic, musician and playwright.
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6. Anthony Burgess -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on Anthony Burgess English novelist, critic, and man of letters, whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas
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born Feb. 25, 1917, Manchester, Eng. died Nov. 22, 1993, London English novelist, critic, and man of letters, whose fictional explorations of modern dilemmas combine wit, moral earnestness, and a note of the bizarre. Back in England he became a full-time and prolific professional writer. Under the pseudonym Anthony Burgess he wrote the novels The Wanting Seed (1962), an antiutopian view of an overpopulated world, and Honey for the Bears (1963). As Joseph Kell he wrote One Hand Clapping (1961) and Inside Mr. Enderby A Clockwork Orange The Eve of Saint Venus (1964) and Enderby Outside (1968). The latter is part of a series of humorous novels centred around the lyric poet F.X. Enderby, whom many critics have seen as a stand-in for Burgess himself. His later works include Earthly Powers The End of the World News The Kingdom of the Wicked Any Old Iron (1989), and

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8. Dana Gioia Online - Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was a novelist of indisputable genius who never published an indisputably great novel. Some writers–like Ralph Ellison or Giuseppe di
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9. Literary Encyclopedia Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917, the son of a music hall artiste and a cinema pianist. His mother and sister died in the influenza epidemic
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10. Anthony Burgess - Wikipedia
Translate this page Im Jahre 1959 wurde bei dem damaligen Lehrer Anthony Burgess ein unheilbarer Gehirntumor diagnostiziert, und es wurde ihm mitgeteilt, dass er nur noch eine
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Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche John Anthony Burgess Wilson 25. Februar in Manchester 25. November in London ), besser bekannt unter seinem K¼nstlernamen Anthony Burgess , war ein britischer Schriftsteller
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Im Jahre 1959 wurde bei dem damaligen Lehrer Anthony Burgess ein unheilbarer Gehirntumor diagnostiziert, und es wurde ihm mitgeteilt, dass er nur noch eine kurze Lebenserwartung h¤tte. Er begann zu schreiben und ver¶ffentlichte in den folgenden Jahren mehr als 50 B¼cher, darunter die Enderby Trilogie und eine Reihe von Dystopien Anthony Burgess’ Werk ist durch das Werk von James Joyce , aber auch durch seinen Katholizismus gepr¤gt. In England ist dies eine Religion der AuŸenseiter, wodurch sich religi¶se und gesellschaftliche Erfahrung nicht ausschlieŸen, sondern miteinander eine Allianz eingehen, wie man sie auch bei anderen englischen katholischen Schriftstellern wie Graham Greene W. Somerset Maugham

11. Anthony Burgess - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre
Translate this page Burgess trabajó como oficial de educación en Brunei y Malasia después de la guerra. En 1959 sufrió un colapso en una clase en Malasia.
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Naci³ en la ciudad de Manchester Inglaterra . Su madre muri³ cuando era aºn un ni±o en Burgess trabaj³ como oficial de educaci³n en Brunei y Malasia despu©s de la guerra. En sufri³ un colapso en una clase en Malasia . Le fue diagnosticado un tumor cerebral inoperable con pocas probabilidades de vida a largo plazo. Este hecho lo inspir³ a escribir con la intenci³n de que su mujer, Lynne, pudiera vivir con holgura con los ingresos provenientes de los derechos de autor. Se retir³ de la ense±anza y se convirti³ en escritor a tiempo completo conviviendo con la enfermedad durante varios a±os. Escribi³ cinco novelas y media en un a±o. El brutal diagn³stico, que le auguraba cuando m¡s un par de a±os de vida, no se confirm³ finalmente en los hechos, circunstancia que suele ser ofrecida como ejemplo de la influencia ben©fica que la actividad art­stica tendr­a sobre la salud humana. Esa "media" novela escrita con la convicci³n de una muerte cercana, se convertir­a despu©s en su obra literaria m¡s famosa. A partir de entonces, escribi³ y public³ m¡s de 50 libros que abarcaban una amplia variedad de temas a lo largo de su carrera. Es autor de enorme cantidad de cr­ticas literarias, ensayos sobre Shakespeare y Joyce, art­culos period­sticos y una veintena de novelas crueles y c¡usticas.

12. Anthony Burgess - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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Jump to: navigation search Anthony Burgess ) was an Englishman who wrote many long stories, called novels One of these was named A Clockwork Orange . It was about Evil . He had the idea for the story after a group of bad young men attacked and beat his dear wife for no reason. Burgess also made songs and music. And he wrote a lot about writers he loved, such as James Joyce , a novelist, and Gerard Manley Hopkins , a poet. Burgess was born in the city of Manchester , in the north of England . Before he became a writer, he was a soldier, then a teacher. When he was 37 years old, he left his home country to work in Malaysia and Brunei . Later, he lived in the USA Italy , and France He was born very poor, the son of a man who made a meagre living out of selling cigarettes to workmen. But when Burgess died, he had grown rich. This was because he worked so hard at his art, which is the art of literature . He wrote at least 1,000 words every day of his life. But he always found time to be kind to other writers. He was friendly to the many people who came from afar to visit with him at his seaside home in Monaco The books by Burgess that people say they like the most are called Earthly Powers , about the Pope Enderby , about a poet; and

13. Anthony Burgess Quotes & Quotations
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) was an England novelist and critic. He was also active as a composer, libretto, poet, playwright,
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Translate this page Anthony Burgess , pseudonimo di John Burgess Wilson (Manchester, 25 febbraio 1917 – Londra, 22 novembre 1993) è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario e
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Nato a Manchester , assunse il cognome Burgess dalla madre. Dal al prest² servizio militare nell'esercito britannico . Oltre che in Inghilterra , fu insegnante anche in Malesia e visse e lavor² anche nell' Asia sudorientale, negli Stati Uniti , nell' Europa mediterranea e a Roma in particolare. Come compositore scrisse 2 sinfonie sonate e concerti , prima di dedicarsi alla letteratura Tra i capolavori della narrativa si ricorda la trilogia The Long Day Wanes ), sugli ultimi giorni dell'impero britannico dell'Est (e ispirato dal suo soggiorno in Malesia ) e il ciclo di romanzi comici di Enderby . Il nome di Burgess ¨ legato soprattutto all'esplorazione sulla natura del male attuata nel romanzo Arancia meccanica A Clockwork Orange , letteralmente Un'arancia ad orologeria ), da cui fu tratto il celeberrimo film

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16. Anthony Burgess - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times
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    Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester and graduated from university there. He worked in the army for six years, then was a college lecturer in Speech and
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    THE CLOCKWORK NOVEL ANTHONY BURGESS (1917-1993) Lidia Vianu Published in LIDIA VIANU British Literary Desperadoes at the Turn of the Millennium , ALL Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999; http://editura.liternet.ro/ebooks/lvianudesperadoes/lvianudesperadoes.pdf http://www.e-scoala.ro/desperado/table_of_contents.html Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester and graduated from university there. He worked in the army for six years, then was a college lecturer in Speech and Drama, and a grammar-school master. Between 1954-1960 he was an education officer in the Colonial Service, stationed in Malaya and Borneo. He became a full-time writer in 1960. By then he had published three novels and a history of English literature. He is also a composer, and his

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    A biography and bibliography from the books and writers website.
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    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) - also called Joseph Kell, original name Jon Anthony Burgess Wilson English novelist, composer, and critic, whose novels are characterized by verbal inventiveness and social satire. Burgess has also written several biographies. However, the author's first love was music: he composed a number of works before publishing his first books. Among Burgess's best-known novels is A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1962). "'What's going to be then, eh?'
    There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard through dry."
    (the beginning of A Clockwork Orange John Anthony Burgess Wilson was born in Manchester into a Catholic middle-class family. His father was a cashier and pub pianist. After his mother died in the flu pandemic of 1919, he was brought up by a maternal aunt and later by a stepmother. Burgess studied at Xaverian College and Manchester University, where he read English language and literature, graduating in 1940. During World War II Burgess served in the Royal Army Medical corps. In 1942 he married Llwela Isherwood Jones, who died of alcoholic cirrhosis in 1968. From 1946 to 1950 Burgess taught at Birmingham University, worked for the Ministry of Education, and was teacher at Banbury Grammar School. Burgess wrote comparatively little until 1959, but primararily studied music composition. His first novel, A VISION OF BATTLEMENT, was completed in 1949 but published in 1965. It was loosely based on the

    19. Scriptorium - Anthony Burgess
    Article on the life and works by Tim Conley, with links to other burgess sites, and a link to a review of the biography by Roger Lewis.
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    By Tim Conley Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess wrote and wrote and wrote. The word "prolific" does not even come close to describing a man who produced over thirty novels, many studies of language, music, Shakespeare and James Joyce, hundreds of reviews, film and television scripts, opera librettos, several symphonies, newspaper articles, a pair each of plays and books for children, one volume of poetry, a ballet, and a two-volume autobiography. "I refuse no reasonable offer of work," he confessed in 1978, "and very few unreasonable ones." He produced several translations from various languages, and could read French, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Gaelic, Swedish, Anglo-Saxon, and heaven only knows what others (he devised an ur-language for the prehistoric denizens of the film Quest for Fire ). When in his seventies, Burgess began to study Hebrew and Japanese, but his strained eyes could not seize the written characters. Still he scorned surrender: "How can one fade out in peace, carrying vast ignorance into a state of total ignorance?" To contemplate the possible scope of Burgess's ignorance expands one's own humility (and perhaps even shame). Burgess once said of Umberto Eco, "no man should know that much": anyone else might enviously say the same of Burgess.
    He was born John Anthony Burgess Wilson on 25 Feb 1917 in Manchester; when he was two years old he would watch his mother die of influenza. His enrolment at university in Manchester would later haunt him, as he felt excluded and denigrated by Oxbridge types for the crime of not being one of them. From a young age, Burgess's reading was voracious and wide, and he must surely be the only soldier who went to the front with a copy of

    20. The International Anthony Burgess Foundation - Homepage
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    With a great deal of sadness, the Foundation announces the death of Liana Burgess Macellari in San Remo, Italy, on Monday 3rd December.
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