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The collected novels and non-fiction of Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/the-irw… Joined January 2016-
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@IrwellEdition Latest edition to the bookshelf. Ok, I’ve got the first edition already, but this is a near mint copy of the folio edition which was going for a tenner, plus £4 postage. Just had to
Did you know that Anthony Burgess (of Clockwork Orange fame) also wrote books for children? Follow the link to find out more. Artwork by Fulvio Testa. anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/a-l…
En noviembre sale por HCEditores este libro de Anthony Burgess que contiene todos sus artículos en diarios con reseñas sobre libros y temas afines. Este sobre las lenguas y su mezcla es interesante; llueve y hace frío, ideal para leer: cartasamargas.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/ant…
Anthony Burgess mural by @tankpetrol round the back of Tib Street, Manchester. With a Clockwork Orange quote, ‘We can destroy what we have written, but we can not unwrite it.’
This week's Anthony Burgess newsletter looks at some of the artists who have illustrated his novels. anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illustra…
On this day in 1977, Anthony Burgess was in Monaco, working on two television series about the lives of General Joseph ('Vinegar Joe') Stilwell and Aristotle Onassis.
From a review of Napoleon Symphony: 'Anthony Burgess strives windily for a weave of story and music into one mock heroic comic wordblast suggesting a novel in cloudborne movements like Beethoven's Eroica, sometimes hurtling, sometimes at funeral pace ...' (1 of 3)
Next read as part of my #20booksofsummer M/F by Anthony Burgess.
Beer aside, reminds me of an interminable but rousing sermon given to the boys for what memory suggests was 20pp or so in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
We've all been there. Home at 4 a.m., finding only 3 bottles of beer, and having decisions to make (Time For A Tiger, Anthony Burgess, 1956)
Alexander Griboyedov‘s 1831 play, Woe from Wit, had the original title Gore ot uma - ‘How One Comes to Grief from Having a Mind’. Anthony Burgess subtitled his English translation of the play ‘The Importance of Being Stupid’.
The Irwell Edition of The Clockwork Testament includes the 'lost' Enderby story by Anthony Burgess. This was originally written as a prelude to volume 3, and finally published in English in 2023.

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