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Anthony Burgess

Born

in Harpurhey, England

February 25, 1917

Died

November 22, 1993

Website

http://www.anthonyburgess.org/

Genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction

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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 · 865,156 ratings · 30,702 reviews · 360 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 776,370 ratings — published 1962 — 588 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wanting Seed 3.72 avg rating — 6,960 ratings — published 1962 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earthly Powers 4.13 avg rating — 3,433 ratings — published 1980 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Hand Clapping 3.83 avg rating — 1,745 ratings — published 1961 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dead Man in Deptford 3.81 avg rating — 1,553 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	1985 3.48 avg rating — 1,623 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Doctor is Sick 3.58 avg rating — 1,527 ratings — published 1960 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing Like the Sun 3.76 avg rating — 1,327 ratings — published 1964 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Day Wanes (Malayan Trilogy #1-3) 3.99 avg rating — 937 ratings — published 1964 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honey for the Bears 3.51 avg rating — 1,059 ratings — published 1963 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Anthony Burgess

Enderby (4 books)
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3.79 avg rating — 2,390 ratings

The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (4 books)
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3.85 avg rating — 1,721 ratings

Quotes by Anthony Burgess (?)

“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

tags: dystopia

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June 2016 Revisit the Shelf Reread

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages, 1980

31 votes, 14.2%

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 251 pages, 1817

23 votes, 10.5%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages, 1943

21 votes, 9.6%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985

21 votes, 9.6%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1883

19 votes, 8.7%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, 256 pages, 1902

18 votes, 8.2%

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 489 pages, 1859

18 votes, 8.2%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

13 votes, 5.9%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 192 pages, 1962

13 votes, 5.9%

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages, 1860

11 votes, 5.0%

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, 255 pages, 1856

10 votes, 4.6%

East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages, 1952

10 votes, 4.6%

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 554 pages, 1838

7 votes, 3.2%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages, 1951

4 votes, 1.8%

219 total votes

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