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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ə s /; [2] 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. [ 3 ]
A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess, the last to be published during his lifetime. It depicts the life and character of Christopher Marlowe , a renowned playwright of the Elizabethan era.
Anthony Burger was born in Cleveland, Tennessee to Richard and Jean Burger. At age eight months, he was using a baby walker and fell into a heating duct on the floor of his house. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He suffered third degree burns on his hands, face and legs.
Anthony Burges or Burgess (died 1664) was a Nonconformist English clergyman, a prolific preacher and writer. [1] [2] Life. He was a son of a schoolmaster at Watford ...
The Death List, episode 3 of series 2 of Yes, Minister mentions Burgess, Maclean and Philby as civil servants who betrayed the country. An Englishman Abroad , 1983 dramatisation of Burgess in Russia by Alan Bennett and directed by John Schlesinger .
Burgess: Music of an English Writer on the Riviera, album of music composed by Burgess and performed by the Aighetta Guitar Quartet, conducted by Avery Gosfield (1996 audio CD) 'A Manchester Overture' (1989) 'Tommy Reilly's Maggot', duet for harmonica and piano (1940s) 'Rome in the Rain', piano and orchestra (1976)
Little Wilson and Big God, volume I of Anthony Burgess's autobiography, was first published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1986. It won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. The work describes a period of over 40 years from Burgess's birth, in 1917, to 1959, when his time as teacher and education officer in Malaya and Borneo came to an end.
Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess first published on October 13th 1980. It begins with the "outrageously provocative" [1] first sentence: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."