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New York (Burgess Book)
This is a list of works by the English writer Anthony Burgess. Works Novels * '' Time for a Tiger'' (1956) (Volume 1 of the Malayan trilogy, '' The Long Day Wanes'') * '' The Enemy in the Blanket'' (1958) (Volume 2 of the trilogy) * '' Beds in the East'' (1959) (Volume 3 of the trilogy) * '' The Right to an Answer'' (1960) * '' The Doctor Is Sick'' (1960) * '' The Worm and the Ring'' (1960) * '' Devil of a State'' (1961) * (as Joseph Kell) '' One Hand Clapping'' (1961) * '' A Clockwork Orange'' (1962) * '' The Wanting Seed'' (1962) * '' Honey for the Bears'' (1963) * (as Joseph Kell) '' Inside Mr. Enderby'' (1963) (Volume 1 of the Enderby quartet) * '' The Eve of St. Venus'' (1964) * '' Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love Life'' (1964) * '' A Vision of Battlements'' (1965) * '' Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel'' (1966) * '' Enderby Outside'' (1968) (Volume 2 of the Enderby quartet) * '' M/F'' (1971) * '' Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian satire ''A Clockwork Orange (novel), A Clockwork Orange'' remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was A Clockwork Orange (film), adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Inside Mr Enderby, Enderby quartet, and ''Earthly Powers''. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series ''Jesus of Nazareth (miniseries), Jesus of Nazareth''. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian'', and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Vision Of Battlements
''A Vision of Battlements'' is a 1965 novel by Anthony Burgess based on his experiences during World War II in Gibraltar, where he was serving with the British army. It is Burgess's first novel: while it was not published until 1965, Burgess wrote it in 1949. As he explained in his introduction to the novel, "I was empty of music but itching to create. So I wrote this novel ... to see if I could clear my head of the dead weight of Gibraltar." Plot The story draws from Burgess's experience of being stationed in Gibraltar during the Second World War and satirises traditional notions of battle heroism by parodying the Aeneid. The antihero Richard Ennis takes the place of Aeneas. The title, in addition to its Gibraltarian associations, contains a reference to the appearance of certain objects in the eye of one who suffers from astigmatism Astigmatism is a type of refractive error due to rotational asymmetry in the eye's refractive power. The lens and cornea of an eye w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kingdom Of The Wicked
''The Kingdom of the Wicked'' is a 1985 historical novel by Anthony Burgess. Like two of his earlier works, the long narrative poem ''Moses'' and the novel '' Man of Nazareth'' (together these books make up what has been referred to as his biblical or religious trilogy), Burgess wrote ''The Kingdom of the Wicked'' in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series '' A.D.'' Plot summary The story of the birth of Christianity and its interaction with the Roman Empire is told largely chronologically by a narrator slowly succumbing to disease during the reign of Domitian. The story starts where ''Man of Nazareth'' ended, immediately after the crucifixion of Jesus, and covers the work of the apostles, in particular Paul (who himself was not one of the original twelve apostles), the development of Christianity as an Abrahamic religion separate from Judaism, the Great Fire of Rome, the persecution of Christians, the destruction of the Second Temple, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earthly Powers
''Earthly Powers'' is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published on October 13th 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." On one level it is a parody of a "blockbuster" novel, with the 81-year-old hero, Kenneth Toomey (allegedly loosely based on British author W. Somerset Maugham), telling the story of his life in 82 chapters. It "summed up the literary, social and moral history of the century with comic richness as well as encyclopedic knowingness", according to Malcolm Bradbury. The novel appeared on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in the year of its publication but lost out to William Golding's ''Rites of Passage''. In an October 2006 poll in ''The Observer'', it was named joint third for the best work of British and Commonwealth fiction of the last 25 years (along wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesus Of Nazareth (film)
''Jesus of Nazareth'' () is a 1977 epic television drama serial directed by Franco Zeffirelli and co-written by Anthony Burgess and Suso Cecchi d'Amico, which dramatizes the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. It stars Robert Powell as Jesus, and features an all-star ensemble cast of renowned actors, including eight who had won or would go on to win Academy Awards: Anne Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quinn, Rod Steiger, James Earl Jones and Peter Ustinov. Some scenes were added during the writing process, with some characters (such as Zerah) added for brevity or dramatic effect. ''Jesus of Nazareth'' depicts Judas Iscariot as initially well-intentioned, but later as a selfish dupe of Zerah's who betrays Jesus largely as a result of Zerah's false platitudes and pretexts. However, in accordance with the Gospels, the film depicts Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea as sympathetic members of the Sanhedrin. Many o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of Nazareth
''Man of Nazareth'' is a 1979 historical novel by Anthony Burgess based on his screenplay for Franco Zeffirelli's television miniseries ''Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977). It is the second in a trilogy of Burgess books with biblical themes, the others being ''Moses'' (1976) and ''The Kingdom of the Wicked'' (1985). Plot introduction ''Man of Nazareth'' is a fictionalized historic account recalling the story of Jesus Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Chris ... from his birth to his death. Burgess uses a Greek merchant recently returned from Jerusalem following the crucifixion as the narrator, a man recounting the stories he heard about Jesus while conducting his business there. Release details *1979, United States, McGraw-Hill , Pub date November 1979, Hardback Sources, refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 (Anthony Burgess Novel)
''1985'' is a novel by English writer Anthony Burgess. Originally this book was published in 1978, it was inspired by, and was intended as a tribute to, George Orwell's novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. It was adapted by Guy Meredith as a radio play and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 23 January 1985. Plot introduction ''1985'' is in two parts. The first part, called "1984", is a series of essays and interviews (Burgess is the voice of the interviewer and the interviewee) discussing aspects of Orwell's book. The basic idea of dystopia is explicated, and term " kakotopia" is also brought up and explored etymologically. The etymology of the word "utopia" is also deconstructed. Burgess treats Orwell as being somewhat bound by his times. Orwell is seen somewhat as a war-exhausted Brit fearing the Soviet threat along with the spectre of atomic war. Orwell is treated as handling these ideas to the exclusion of other phenomena which would come to alter British society. Burgess explicates th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beard's Roman Women
''Beard's Roman Women'' is a 1976 novel by British novelist Anthony Burgess. Dated "Montalbuccio-Monte Carlo-Eze-Callian, Summer 1975", according to Burgess it was written in the back of his Bedford Dormobile as he and his wife, Liana Burgess toured Europe and "partly in the bedroom of a small hotel run by Swiss homosexuals" ('' You've Had Your Time''). The novel is set in Rome and is apparently based on Burgess's experience of being widowed in the mid-1960s. Burgess's wife, Liana, is depicted as Paola Lucrezia Belli in the novel. Photographs in the original edition were by David Robinson. In 2018, a new edition was published by Manchester University Press, restoring the photographs for the first time since the first edition. There is also a new introduction by Graham Foster, a fully annotated text, and several appendices of previously unpublished writing by Burgess. Plot Ronald Beard, a screenwriter specialising in musicals, is grieving the death of his wife, Leonora, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Clockwork Testament, Or Enderby's End
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
