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The Devil’s Mode
‘In this, his first collection of short stories, the blazingly talented Anthony Burgess proves himself a virtuoso writer in yet another genre. Conjuring up distant times as well as the present, faraway places and familiar ones, ordinary human conflict and teh deepest questions of the human condition, Burgess dazzles with these brilliantly crafted stories’
Earthly Powers
‘Earthly Powers is Anthony Burgess’s supreme achievement as a novelist. An enthralling, epic narrative that spans six decades of history, that spotlights some of the most vivid events and characters of the twentieth century, it is a novel about the nature and origins of evil.’
The Real Life Of Anthony Burgess
‘Andrew Biswell’s biography is the first to make sense of Burgess’s life and works in a comprehensive way. It takes in the full range and variety of his writing and looks at his early influences, his chaotic sexual life and the repercussions – both literary and philosophical – of the loss of his Catholic faith. Drawing on extensive interviews, unpublished manuscripts, letter and diaries, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess reveals both the professional writer and the private man as he has never been seen before.’
A Dead Man In Deptford
‘The whole world of Elizabethan England is brilliantly recreated in Anthony Burgess’s late novel, a joyous celebration of the life of Christopher Marlowe, murdered in highly suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford four hundred years ago.’
Cyrano de Bergerac
‘In this work, Anthony Burgess, a prodigy of the modern novel and a virtuoso of the English language, has brought his special gifts to bear on one of the great texts of the classic theatre – one with a hero whose name has become synonymous with raffish, big-nosed, big-souled nobility. The result is this supple and effervescently witty translation of Cyrano de Bergerac.’
The Complete Enderby
‘Enderby, poet and social critic, comrade and Catholic, is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita. But whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex-film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit music based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.’
A Clockwork Orange
‘In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture, and murder – for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him – but how and at what cost?’
Abba Abba
‘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, little known outside Rome, since he wrote in the rough, dirty, blasphemous dialect of the Roman streets. The first part of this book is about Keats and Belli. The second part presents Belli himself as poet, translated by Anthony Burgess.’
Any Old Iron
‘Any Old Iron is prodigious entertainment, a grand and boisterous novel that sweeps us up and hurls us pell-mell through the major events of this century. Once in the hand of Attila; then in that of Arthur; looted by the Nazis at Monte Cassino; seized by the Soviets to be exhibited in Leningrad, King Arthur’s Excalibur is the flashing blade that hangs over the fates of men and women caught up in the chaos of history.’
The Eve of Saint Venus
‘The Eve of Saint Venus is a delightful feast – a highly civilised joke in which the goddess Venus descends into the grey world of the welfare state, intervenes erotically in the wedding arrangements of a young couple, and – through her capacity as goddess of love – transcends her divine appetites and consecrates in music, poetry and miracle the union of the young, the beautiful, and the innocent.’