In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Burgess creates a gloomy future full of violence, rape and destruction. In this dystopian novel, Burgess does a fantastic job of constantly changing the readers’ allegiance toward the books narrator and...
In Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Burgess creates a gloomy future full of violence, rape and destruction. In this dystopian novel, Burgess does a fantastic job of constantly changing the readers’ allegiance toward the books narrator and...
Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first...
After a failed suicide attempt at the very end of Inside Mr. Enderby, the second novel opens with the protagonist under psychiatric care and working as a bartender at a large London hotel. Under the name of 'Hogg' (his stepmother's maiden name, we...
"A brilliant and breathless performance…vintage Burgess… The whole performance stuns." – The Boston Globe"Readers will howl with laughter – a wickedly amusing book." – The Atlantic Monthly"Resurrected by popular request… Enderby the...
Inside Mr Enderby is a the first volume in the four-book Enderby series of comic novels by the British author Anthony Burgess.The book was first published in 1963 in London by William Heinemann under the pseudonym Joseph Kell. The series...
La pregunta que plantea este libro, una de las obras fundamentales en la literatura del siglo XX, no debería ser la más obvia, la que aparece en la superficie del texto: `¿Es el hombre un ser violento?`, sino: `¿Es la...
Dzieje się to w przyszłości nieokreślonej i w mieście też nie całkiem określonym. Tylko nieliczne realia wskazują, może niechcący, że to Anglia i poniekąd Londyn. Więc jakby science fiction w tej specyficznej i nadzwyczaj ważkiej...
An anthology of storiesSherlock Holmes is back!Sherlock Holmes, the world’s first-and most famous-consulting detective, came to the world’s attention more than 120 years ago through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels and stories. But...