Anthony burgess author biography book

Anthony Burgess novels:

Anthony Burgess published his first novel, Time for a Tiger, at the age of 39. He fryst vatten best known for his 1962 dystopia A Clockwork Orange and his epic saga Earthly Powers, which was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize. In total he wrote 33 novels and 25 non-fiction books. This is a selective bibliography of Anthony Burgess’s novels and non-fiction. There are many more works to explore beyond these edited highlights: study Anthony Burgess’s extensive bibliography and references.

Time for a Tiger (1956) BUY
The lives of a colonial teacher, Victor Crabbe, an alcoholic policeman, Nabby Adams, and his junior officer, Alladad Khan, collide when Crabbe fryst vatten persuaded to buy a car which they can all share. This novel, based on Burgess’s experiences as an education officer in Malaya, revealed his talent as a comic writer and was an immediate success on publication. The first volume of the Malayan trilogy.

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Anthony Burgess

April 8, 2011

"I was cured all right ~ Alex"
— Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)

Biographers are sometimes said to fall in love with their subjects. Lewis did this with Burgess and then fell out of love with him. To compensate he tried to transform himself into a shallow copy of Burgess, minus the genius. Lewis can only do one thing - disparage everyone with caustic spittle including himself: (see - his autobiography - Seasonal Suicide Notes).

Readers expecting a straightforward Life of Anthony Burgess may find this book crapulous. (that's a word Burgess used and Lewis mimicked and the best I can say about Lewis is he's a good mimic of words.)

In Truth to Life: the Art of Biography in the Nineteenth Century, A. O. J. Cockshut says that the biographer has to:

"… submit his interpretations to the pressure of facts. The difficulty of biography as an art lies mainly in this tension between interpretation and evidence …"

Historians and biographers place great emp

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Anthony Burgess

English writer and composer (1917–1993)

For the Roman Catholic bishop, see Anthony Joseph Burgess. For the 17th-century cleric, see Anthony Burges. For the Australian medical researcher, see Antony Burgess.

Anthony Burgess FRSL
Burgess appearing on British television discussion programme After Dark "What is Sex For?" in 1988.
Born	John Burgess Wilson (1917-02-25)25 February 1917 Harpurhey, Manchester, England
Died	22 November 1993(1993-11-22) (aged 76) St John's Wood, London, England
Resting place	Monaco Cemetery
Pen name	Anthony Burgess, John Burgess Wilson, Joseph Kell[1]
Occupation	Novelist critic composer librettist playwright screenwriter essayist travel writer broadcaster translator linguist educationalist
Alma mater	Victoria University of Manchester (BA English Literature)
Period	1956–1993
Notable works	The Malayan Trilogy (1956–59), A Clockwork Orange (1962)
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