Anthony Burgess

Clássico eterno da ficção inglesa, Laranja Mecânica é um verdadeiro marco na história da cultura pop e da literatura distópica, fascinando e desconcertando leitores desde seu lançamento, em 1962. A história de Alex, membro de uma violenta gangue de adolescentes que sai às ruas buscando divertimento de uma maneira um …

In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile on Malta; and Don …

Livro escrito por Anthony Burgess, que descreve um retrato apocalíptico da Londres futura, revelando uma sociedade ultra-burocratizada.

‘One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers… It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by …

'Nothing Like The Sun' is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing.

Who, I ask you, wants to drag his bones out of the earth, reclothed in flesh which, in some foul magic of reversal, is regurgitated by the worms, in order that his eyes may see God? Who, I ask you, wants to live for ever? Sadoc son of Azor, a retired shipping clerk lying diseased and dying on the outreaches of the …

The End of the World News is a 1982 novel by British author Anthony Burgess. Presented without chapter breaks, the plot weaves together three storylines. One follows Leon Trotsky on a journey to New York City shortly before the Russian Revolution of 1917. This story is written as the libretto of an Off-Broadway …

Sem James Joyce a literatura contemporanea nao teria tido sobrevida; sem James Joyce a literatura moderna nao teria tido vida. Verdade ou mentira, o irlandes James Joyce e sinonimo de revolucao, tal como seu provavel modelo, o poeta frances Stephane Mallarme. Joyce e mito, monstro da literatura: louco, ilegivel, …

"Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . "―The New York Times Book Review Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery, things and people he hardly knew …

Qualquer Ferro Velho é uma novela escrita por Anthony Burgess, que conta a história de uma família galesa, durante os períodos históricos mais determinantes da história da Europa no século XX - as duas Guerras Mundiais e a fundação do estado de Israel.