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1985 is a novel by English writer Anthony Burgess. Originally this book was published in 1978, it was inspired by, and was intended as a tribute to, George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. [1] It was adapted by Guy Meredith as a radio play and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 23 January 1985. [2]
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 ]
1985 (1978) Man of Nazareth (based on his screenplay for Jesus of Nazareth) (1979) Earthly Powers (1980) The End of the World News: An Entertainment (1982) Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End of Enderby (1984) (Volume 4 of the Enderby quartet) The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985) The Pianoplayers (1986) Any Old Iron (1988) Mozart and the Wolf Gang (1991)
The Kingdom of the Wicked is a 1985 historical novel by Anthony Burgess.. Like two of his earlier works, the long narrative poem Moses and the novel Man of Nazareth (together these books make up what has been referred to as his biblical or religious trilogy), Burgess wrote The Kingdom of the Wicked in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series A.D.
A.D. (1985) is an American/Italian miniseries in six parts that adapts the narrative in the Acts of the Apostles.Considered as the third and final installment in a TV miniseries trilogy that began with Moses the Lawgiver (1974) and Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth (1977), [1] it was adapted from Anthony Burgess's 1985 novel The Kingdom of the Wicked, which was itself a sequel to Burgess's ...
Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 – A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess, published by Allison & Busby in 1984. It covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for The Yorkshire Post. In the ...
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1985. Events ... Anthony Burgess – The Kingdom of the Wicked;
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