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A Clockwork Orange Best Price: $6.98 I say complicated because of the language that's found throughout the novel. The entire book is... | The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard Best Price: $6.99 All the stories here are great. I really liked Manhole,the Cloud-sculptors of Coral D, and... | The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) Best Price: $7.61 It was worth reading if you enjoy books such as "1984". However, this book was very... | Cyrano de Bergerac: by Edmund Rostand translated by Anthony Burgess Best Price: $6.89 Although I am an Anthony Burgess fan, I find this translation to be nowhere near as good as the... | The Doctor Is Sick Best Price: $8.00 Poor Edwin Spindrift, a proper Doctor of Philosophy and a lecturer on Linguistics passes out... |
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1985 Best Price: $87.65 An outstanding work that is clearly (read the other reviews, all bar Mr Pen-some's are naive... | A Clockwork Orange Best Price: $31.66 | The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library) Best Price: $8.92 I run hot & cold on Burgess (mainly warmish). This was a burner.
The characters were... | Tremor of Intent: A Novel Best Price: $7.05 i hate giving huge descriptions about books and how the characters are and the problems of the... | A Clockwork Orange CD Best Price: $8.80 Tom Hollander who reads this book does a wonderful job. The slang that is used non-stop in this... |
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Re Joyce Best Price: $8.11 Burgess is very smart, and he's probably a better scholar of Joyce than writer himself. This... | Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life (Norton Paperback Fiction) Best Price: $5.99 I'm sure Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun is like nothing I've ever read before. The... | A Dead Man in Deptford (Burgess, Anthony) Best Price: $4.10 Anthony Burgess is a masterful novelist whose playful sense of linguistics informs this... | Earthly Powers (Burgess, Anthony) This book, like much of Burgesss's output, is sui-generis. Yes, our narrator, Toomey, by... | Byrne: A Novel Best Price: $3.50 How can I describe "Byrne," a book by Burgess / (Anthony)? Putative novel, his last... |
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A Clockwork Orange (Essential Penguin) Best Price: $8.33 Great book written all in the gang-slang of the futuristic day. This book is a classic and a... | One Hand Clapping: A Novel Best Price: $5.69 as compared to the whole new language invented for Clockwork Orange but a decent effort that... | Honey for the Bears (Norton Paperback Fiction) Best Price: $7.50 Anthony Burgess' "Honey for the Bears," is a fast paced farcical satire set in Cold... | The Disenchanted This book, published in 1950, is the best book on Scott Fitzgerald I've ever read, and I've read... | The Complete Enderby : Inside Mr. Enderby, Enderby Outside, the Clockwork Testament, Enderby's Dark Lady Best Price: $74.51 The first thing to say about these books is that they're very funny. - They're very funny! - I... |
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A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English Anthony Burgess, as is evident from the get-go, is a high-brow. In this book, a bildungsroman of... | This Man and Music Best Price: $6.50 Anthony Burgess was the author of over 50 books, including his best known novel, "A... | One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writings Best Price: $5.15 This is top-drawer Tone-boy. Right up there with A MOUTHFUL OF AIR, his book about languages.... | Napoleon Symphony Best Price: $77.71 It's a mystery how this masterpiece came to be so misunderstood. Burgess' favorite among his... | The Right to an Answer: A Novel Best Price: $13.07 |
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El Reino de Los Reprobos | The Pianoplayers Best Price: $4.95 For Burgess, one of late 20th century's certifiable master fiction writers, a piece like The... | The End of the World News: An Entertainment Best Price: $5.95 Used, but in excellent condition. No marks at all.The End of the World News: An Entertainment | Enderby I have read a number of Burgess many fictional works. I know the most well- known and highly... | The Doctor Is Sick |
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The Malayan trilogy I started this book in my 20's. It did not do very much for me then. I liked the exotic location... | D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy; Sea and Sardinia; Etruscan Places (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) Best Price: $7.00 The book was not quite what I expected. It did not add much to my store of knowledge, and did... | Oedipus the King. (Minnesota drama editions) Best Price: $7.89 Oedipus the King is one of the classic works of Western literature. It was originally written as... | Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce (Harvest Book, Hb 303) Best Price: $35.00 Now I'll probably get every hard-core Joyce scholar upset but this is a great work by a great... | Shakespeare Best Price: $5.44 Perhaps the most distinctive and pleasing element of Burgess' book lies not in its ability to... |
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The Clockwork Testament, Or, Enderby's End Best Price: $8.70 | The End of the World News: An Entertainment Best Price: $6.76 Anthony Burgess seems to be dangerously close to being passed over by history. The only book... | English Literature | Man of Nazareth a Novel Best Price: $55.83 This book came out 20 years before Melvin Gibson's cinematic spectacle, this in-depth literary... | Ernest Hemingway Best Price: $103.72 Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" allows the reader to experience life on the... |
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M/F (Penguin modern classics fiction) Best Price: $16.62 Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a... | The Kingdom of the Wicked Best Price: $156.80 This is Burgess's version of the early story of Christianity, beginning at the crucifixion and... | LA Naranja Mecanica Best Price: $30.99 un libro cautivador,violento, unpoko de sexo, y con una lesion q aprenderlo recomiendo al... | 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939 This is Burgess doing busywork. He is fast and quick and he covers the ninety- nine novels he... | Abba Abba |
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Mf Miles Faber, Male and Female, and finally, the north american slang that is too profane to be... | The Devil's Mode Best Price: $6.55 As with most people, I only knew Anthony Burgess through A Clockwork Orange and I knew that he... | A Clockwork Orange - Masterpieces of Science Fiction Best Price: $145.89 Brand new LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold. | Naranja Mecanica Best Price: $21.00 | The novel now: A guide to contemporary fiction |
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Inside Mr. Enderby | Cualquier Hierro Viejo Best Price: $30.60 | Enderby Outside | The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows Visiting the land where ice cream grows may be interesting and delicious, but there is also an... | The Eve of Saint Venus: A Novel Best Price: $11.59 |
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Nothing Like the Sun Anthony Burgess had a marvelous agility with language and the words that comprise it. For... | A Clockwork Orange Collector's Edition Best Price: $225.00 Collector's Edition Bound in Genuine Leather | Flame into Being: Life and Work of D.H. Lawrence (Abacus Books) | El Pais De Los Helados/the Land Where the Ice Cream Grows | How to Save Your Own Life I found this in a used book store and was so happy. Then I read it and am no longer happy. Fear... |