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Anthony Burgess

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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 …

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'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.

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‘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 …

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Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic …

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Jordiske makter er en to-binds roman av Anthony Burgess utgitt i 1980. Romanen handler om forfatteren Kenneth Marchal Toomey som har stor suksess innenfor komediesjangeren og derfor en romslig økonomi til å kunne reise rundt om i verden. Han vokser opp i en engelsk katolikkfamilie, der det faktum at han er homofil …

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Den mekaniske appelsin er en dystopisk science fiction-bok av Anthony Burgess fra 1962, i norsk oversetting 1993.