Anthony Burgess, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $0 (589p) ISBN 978-0-07-008977-8
There seems to be nothing Anthony Burgess can't write. Over the past decades, he has created a large body of critically acclaimed fiction (A Clockwork Orange, Earthly Powers, etc.), criticism (The Novel Now, Joysprick and book-length nonfiction (Lang
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Anthony Burgess, Author Random House (NY) $19.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-394-57484-4
Few novelists writing today have the range and erudition of Burgess; and = when, as in Earthly Powers , he gets hold of a subject in which his own powers can be brought into full play, the result is dazzling. Any Old Iron (the title is a word play...
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Anthony Burgess, Author George Weidenfeld & Nicholson $22.5 (460p) ISBN 978-1-55584-100-3
Filled with epigrammatic wit, written with seemingly total recall, this first installment of Burgess's autobiography is a thoroughly delightful memoir, the mellow recollections of a man who has come to terms with himself. He was born John Burgess...
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Anthony Burgess, Author Arbor House Publishing $16.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-87795-832-1
Burgess's entertaining pen does not flag in this larky exercise in nostalgia. The slim novel is narrated by elderly but still beautiful Ellen Henshaw, born lower-class British but now retired in Provence after a career as an entrepreneurial...
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Anthony Burgess, Author Random House (NY) $18.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-394-57670-1
The prolific author's first collection of short stories is a bonbon assortment, a mix of imaginary historical tales and fictional travel pieces. In the most daring story, William Shakespeare, visiting Spain with his troupe, meets an aged, raging...
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Anthony Burgess, Author Grove/Atlantic $23.5 (403p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1405-1
Burgess returned home to England from Malaya in 1959 to a medical diagnosis that he had less than a year to live. He turned himself into a ``busy hack'' to earn royalties for his wife Lynne, whose suicide attempt and subsequent death from alcoholic...
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Anthony Burgess, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-395-59510-7
Burgess, a composer before he turned to writing, worships Mozart with a tinge of envy, to which he himself alludes in a closing essay. While recognizing Mozart as the supreme musical genius, he also finds it necessary to observe that Mozart ``may...
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Anthony Burgess, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-688-11935-5
Burgess, who invented a teenspeak for the gangs in his novel A Clockwork Orange, infects readers with his love of words in a delightful, wittily urbane romp through the world's languages, in particular ``volatile and hospitable'' English. This is...
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Anthony Burgess, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $15.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0026-4
Burgess's ambitious study of 20th-century history centers on the stormy relationship between an effete, popular novelist and a Faustian priest. (Jan.)
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Anthony Burgess, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0192-6
Burgess's last book, published in England two years ago, shortly before the author's death, is a masterly piece of work. It is an extraordinary reflection on the state of American publishing that the novel had to wait so long for publication here,...
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Anthony Burgess, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0456-9
Burgess, who died in 1993, was one of the most multitalented writers of the century (his works ranging from A Clockwork Orange through A Dead Man in Deptford), a man who surprised us with each new book. And this, his final work, completed only...
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Anthony Burgess, Author, Ben Forkner, Editor Carroll & Graf Publishers $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0568-9
Novelist and critic Burgess was a polymath, a man with immense stores of erudition on history, music, art, religion, philosophy--whatever caught his fancy and lodged in his very capacious mind. He also had a good journalist's knack of being able to...
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Anthony Burgess, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Washington Square Press $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72708-6
Fifty years in the lives of two families--one Russian-Welsh, another Jewish--are traced from WW I to the founding of Israel. PW described this as ``a novel that is for the most part breathlessly readable, touching and funny by turns, and which...
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Anthony Burgess, Author, Tom Hollander, Performed by , read by Tom Hollander. Caedmon Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-117062-1
After his youthful adventures of raping and pillaging, Alex finds himself in prison. When he volunteers for an experiment, his sentence is commuted to two weeks. The experiment leaves him physically incapable of doing wrong and releases him back...
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