Anthony Burgess Book order (chronological)

Immer wieder haben Autoren versucht, sich dem Phänomen auch auf literarischen Wegen zu nähern. Zu diesem Kreis zählt der große britische Schriftsteller Anthony Burgess, bei dem man gleich im ersten Kapitel weiß, in wessen kundigen Händen man sich befindet, wenn der Erzähler Asor, ein fiktiver Sprachgelehrter und Geschichtenerzähler des 1. Jahrhunderts, erst einmal detailliert mit falschen Vorstellungen darüber aufräumt, wie damals Kreuzigungen durchgeführt wurden. Im Folgenden hält Asor sich an die aus den Evangelien bekannte Handlung, beginnt mit der Vorgeschichte, der Geburt Johannes des Täufers und der Geburt Jesu im Stall von Bethlehem, erzählt teils apokryphe Begebenheiten aus der Jugend und schildert schließlich Jesu Sendung als religiöser Lehrer (und Heiler) bis zum Tod am Kreuz. Bei alledem ist Asor aber eine Figur ihrer Zeit, die manches skeptisch sieht, was heute selbstverständlich ist, um dann wieder als gegeben anzunehmen, was uns rätselhaft scheint. Ob Jesus nun Gottes Sohn ist oder nicht, maßt er sich nicht an zu beurteilen, aber er ist fasziniert von diesem furchtlosen Mann, der sich so konsequent unbeliebt macht mit seinem Gedanken der Nächstenliebe.

Anthony Burgess's brilliance as an essayist and his passion for music are united in The Devil Prefers Mozart, the largest collection of his music essays ever assembled.

Exploring the complexities of music and its impact, this book presents a unique tribute to Mozart, blending celestial dialogues with fictional elements. Set against a backdrop of modern conflict, it features multiple personas engaging in discussions that aim to uncover the essence of music. Through a creative mix of narrative forms, including an opera libretto and film script fragments, the author delves into the bewildering yet comforting nature of Mozart's work, ultimately seeking to illuminate the profound questions surrounding music's meaning.

In der zweiten Hälfte der 1950er Jahre, als die Unabhängigkeit von der britischen Kolonialmacht näher rückt, beginnt der britische Lehrer Victor Crabbe im Bundesstaat Dahaga als Schuldirektor. Seine Ehe mit Fenella ist durch eine frühere Affäre mit einer Malaiin gefährdet, und als er sich mit der Frau seines Vorgesetzten einlässt, wird die Situation noch komplizierter. Fenella zieht zudem das Interesse des örtlichen Potentaten auf sich. Crabbe sieht sich schließlich der Anschuldigung ausgesetzt, mit Kommunisten zu sympathisieren, während er selbst nicht erkennt, wie tief er in die Verwicklungen verwickelt ist. In diesem Teil der Trilogie beleuchtet Anthony Burgess die Religionen Malaysias sowie die Interaktionen der verschiedenen Bevölkerungsgruppen, die sich in der Endphase der Kolonialzeit vereinen, vor allem in ihrer Abneigung gegen die abziehende Kolonialmacht. Neben Crabbe treten auch skurrile Figuren wie der erfolglose Anwalt Hardman auf, der vom Katholizismus zum Islam konvertiert, um eine wohlhabende malaiische Witwe zu heiraten. Burgess schafft ein eindringliches und bitter-amüsantes Bild eines ethnisch, religiös und sprachlich vielfältigen Landes in einer einzigartigen Umbruchsituation.

Der 1959 erstmals veröffentlichte Roman „Betten im Orient“ (der Titel spielt auf Shakespeares Drama „Antonius und Kleopatra“ an) ist das großartige Finale der berühmten Malaya-Trilogie, in der sich Anthony Burgess mit dem Ende der britischen Kolonialzeit in Malaya auseinandersetzt. Zentralfigur und Antiheld ist auch in diesem Roman der Brite Victor Crabbe. Vom Lehrer zum Direktor und nun zum Leiter der staatlichen Schulbehörde befördert, aber von seiner Frau verlassen, stemmt Crabbe sich weiter dem Strudel der Konflikte zwischen den unterschiedlichen Bevölkerungsgruppen entgegen. Eine Party, die Crabbe in diesem Bestreben veranstaltet, endet im Chaos, und zwischen Tamilen und Malaien fließt Blut, aber ein junger Komponist chinesischer Abstammung scheint das Zeug zu haben, das Land zumindest musikalisch zu einen. In Crabbe findet er einen beharrlichen Förderer, doch dann wird Crabbe von seiner eigenen Geschichte eingeholt. Und der junge Komponist begegnet seiner Muse. Auf seine unnachahmliche Weise – mit Wortwitz, Situationskomik, lite­rarischen und musikalischen Anspielungen und hintergründigem Humor – schildert Burgess in der Trilogie einen historisch einzigartigen Moment in der Schlussphase des britischen Empire. Selbst in musikalischer Komposition geschult, führt Burgess in „Betten im Orient“ die in den beiden Vorgängerromanen entwickelten Motivstränge zu einem kunstvollen Abschluss. (Bd. 3 der Trilogie)

Exploring the interplay between literature and music, Anthony Burgess delves into composition, poetry, and prose, sharing his personal experiences as both a novelist and composer. The work examines how these art forms influence and enhance one another, offering insights into their creative processes and the emotional connections they evoke.

The Collected Poems of the acclaimed Manchester-born poet, novelist, screenwriter and composer Anthony Burgess.

In John 17, Jesus prayed for the unity of the church. Yet today, we tend to accept disunity as inevitable. In this book, Anthony Burgess calls us to addresses the spiritual and visible unity that Jesus desires for His people. Burgess speaks of how union and communion with Christ and His people are "the life and comfort of believers." Giving careful consideration of what Christian unity should look like, Burgess excels at uncovering common causes of division and promoting means to advance unity among God's people.

Rare Book

252 pages. First printing of the Ballantine pocket-size paperback. U5037.

Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter.

Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita. But whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.

The great diversity of Spain is captured here in a series of breathtaking photographs accompanying a century of travel writing from the pages of the New York Times.

Земная жизнь Иисуса Христа, увиденная глазами человека двадцатого века. Автору удалось создать свои, совершенно неповторимые образы Христа, Иосифа, Марии, Иоанна Крестителя. В романе действуют многочисленные исторические персонажи, широко представлены детали быта Иудеи двухтысячелетней давности, и в то же время - это роман о сегодняшнем дне, о неизменных с момента сотворения мира человеческих страстях, о непостижимом во все времена Божием Промысле.

Un escritor sexagenario atraviesa un bache creativo que termina conduciéndole a una crisis personal. A lo largo de su vida, su principal forma de encontrar la escritura creativa ha sido sentado en la tapa del inodoro. Ahora, no obstante, ni siquiera ese excéntrico método da resultados. Presentación de un personaje que dará origen a un ciclo, y a la vez obra antónima en sí misma, Enderby por dentro traza el soberbio retrato irónico de un poeta retirado en una población costera del sur de Inglaterra, en un mundo extravagante, disparatado y sórdido, que se muestra con inventiva y sarcástica lucidez. Enderby atrapado en las redes del matrimonio, cepillado y manicurado, vivirá una pavorosa luna de miel de alcoholismo y disputas teológicas en Roma, de la que surgirá la mencionada crisis final de sequedad creadora.

In a collection of nonfiction writings, the British novelist addresses his childhood, his experiences in Malaysia and Monaco, his own work and its critics, and the work of his contemporaries.

"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy. . . . Honey for the Bears is a triumph."―Kingsley Amis, New York Times A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife. Even on the ship's voyage across, the Russian sensibility begins to lots of secrets and lots of vodka. When his American wife is stricken by a painful rash and he is interrogated at his hotel by Soviet agents who know that he is trying to sell stylish synthetic dresses to the masses starved for fashion, his precarious inner balance is thrown off for good. More drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with another woman, and his own submerged sexual feelings come breaking through the surface, bubbling up in Russian champagne and caviar.

This is one in a series of "Penguin 60s" biography titles.

This collection of essays sheds light on one of the finest literary talents of the 20th century. fifty-seven excerpts of interviews, personal impressions, diary entries, articles, essays, and literary pieces reveal the private life of Greene--opinionated, charming, articulate, controversial.

A bumper volume of the best poems by a hugely funny and quotable writer.

Seit der Veröffentlichung von Ulysses nimmt James Joyce einen einzigartigen Platz in der Literatur des Jahrhunderts ein. Kühn und kompromisslos öffnete er der Sprache und literarischen Schöpfung eine neue Dimension. Künstler, Fotografen und Bildhauer schufen Bilder von Joyce, seiner Familie und seinen Kollegen, was die Faszination für Joyce und seinen ungebrochenen Einfluss bis in die Gegenwart dokumentiert. Viele der gezeigten Werke stammen von bekannten Künstlern wie Man Ray, Berenice Abbott und Matisse, während andere weniger bekannt sind. Diese 90 Bilder bilden die umfassendste Sammlung von Joyce-Porträts, die je für ein einzelnes Buch zusammengestellt wurde. Man fragt sich, wie Joyce auf einen solchen Band reagiert hätte. Vielleicht hätte er in der Stimmung geschrieben, in der er einem Maler nach einer Sitzung lobte, dass dessen Zeichnung das einzige sei, worüber man sich nicht streiten könne. Doch auch Joyce erkannte seine Grenzen, als er einem Künstler gestand, dass er Bilder mochte, aber die Nägel an den Wänden für ihn ausreichend seien. Die Einführung stammt von Anthony Burgess, einem Fürsprecher von Joyces Werk, der kurz nach Fertigstellung seines Textes starb. Bob Cato, ein preisgekrönter Buchgestalter, war auch als Bildhauer, Maler und Collagist tätig.

A novelization of the life of the 16th century playwright, Christopher Marlowe, portraying him as a spy for Elizabeth I's government in its war with Catholics.

The decadence and violence of the urban streets is graphically portrayed in this novel set in a post-WWII Brooklyn slum.

W.B. Yeats wrote of a poem that he "made it out of a mouthful of air". All literature and indeed language, Burgess argues, is made this way - an oral rather than a visual medium. Burgess goes on to present a survey of the history, development and cross-fertilization of languages.

"James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is one of the twentieth century's great coming-of-age novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides explanatory notes to deepen the reader's appreciation for Joyce's masterpiece." ""Backgrounds and Contexts" is topically organized: "Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916," "The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival," "Religion," and "Aesthetic Backgrounds." Fourteen illustrations accompany the documents." ""Criticism" begins with John Paul Riquelme's overview of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man's structure. Twelve diverse interpretations of his work follow, by Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Helene Cixous, John Paul Riquelme, Karen Lawrence, Maud Ellmann, Bonnie Kime Scott, Joseph Valente, Marian Eide, Pericles Lewis, adn Jonathan Mulrooney. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.

Finnegans Wakeis Joyce's last great work, and is formulated as one dense, tongue-twisting soundscape. It also remains the mosthilarious, 'obscene', book of innuendos ever to be imagined.

Second and final volume of the autobiography of Anthony Burgess. The narrative begins in 1959, with the author's return from Brunei and the start of a professional writing career. It ends in 1982 with the centenary celebrations of James Joyce's birth. The author also wrote "Earthly Powers".

Contents: - A Meeting in Valladolid - The Most Beautiful - The Cavalier of The Rose - 1889 and The Devils's Mode - Wine of The Country - Snow - The Endless Voyager - Hun - Murder To Music

Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in England—though his wealth can’t be found in banks. He’s been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and it’s attracted the suspicion of 007’s superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well as Goldfinger’s most daring caper yet: Operation Grand Slam, a gold heist so audacious it could bring down the world economy and put the fate of the West in the hands of SMERSH. To stop Goldfinger, Bond will have to survive a showdown with the sinister millionaire’s henchman, Oddjob, a tenacious karate master who can kill with one well-aimed toss of his razor-rimmed bowler hat.

Any Old Iron is prodigious entertainment, a grand and boisterous novel that sweeps us up and hurls us pell-mell through the major events of this century. Once in the land of Attila; then in that of Arthur; looted by the Nazis at Monte Cassino; seized by the Soviets to be exhibited in Leningrad, King Arthur's Excalibur is the flashing blade that hangs over the fates of men and women caught up in the chaos of history.

It is customary to preface an autobiography with an apology, but in today's world, such a gesture seems unnecessary. We live in an age where standards of decent conduct are under threat, with daily reports of violence, divorce, and arson. Young girls smoke cigarettes and, reportedly, cigars; mature women don one-piece bathing costumes, and married men often prefer cinema to traditional values. In light of this, it becomes essential to present a higher example to society. At forty-seven, I have felt this urgency growing stronger. When my wife, her four sisters, and the vicar of my parish, Reverend Simeon Whey, urged me to share my experiences, I realized that delaying this task would be a moral failing. While many may dismiss the concept of sin, I firmly oppose it and have consistently rebuked it in others while striving to avoid it myself. Therefore, I feel it is my duty to share this volume, not only as a reflection of my beliefs but as a call to uphold higher standards in a time when they are sorely needed.

This novel is one of Anthony Burgess's most accessible and entertaining works. By turns bawdy, raucous, tender and bittersweet, and full of music and songs, this is a warm and affectionate portrait of the working-class Lancashire of the 1920s and 1930s that he knew from his own early life. Part of the forthcoming Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess, this book offers an opportunity to reappraise an unjustly neglected novel important to our understanding of Burgess's wider oeuvre. The 2017 Burgess centenary makes this a key moment for reflection on the life and work of a major figure in twentieth century letters.

Following the death of her father, an irregularly employed pianist, Ellen Henshaw becomes a high-class prostitute in Paris during the 1930s and then founds a chain of schools to instruct men in the arts of love and music

Offers a portrait of the author's first forty years, from his childhood in Manchester to the moment when, having been told he was dying, he began to write seriously

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 existed swoop down on him as he careens through an adventurous night in London. "Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . ." (NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW) by the author of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

F.X. Enderby travels to Indiana in order to impress the Hoosiers with his musical script on the career of Shakespeare and falls in love with a nightclub singer.

Traces the life of the English author, D.H. Lawrence, and examines the development of his fiction and poetry

Nach „CLOCKWORK ORANGE“ präsentiert Anthony Burgess einen neuen intellektuell-zeitkritischen Roman, der die merkwürdige Existenz des Professors Enderby schildert. Er lehrt Literatur an einer New Yorker Universität und betreibt zufällig eine Bar in Tanger, ursprünglich als Mordfall geplant. Enderby ist ein skurriler Vertreter beider Zünfte, der als Realist und Idealist zugleich auftritt. Seine Auffassung von menschlicher Freiheit und der Entscheidung für oder gegen das Böse ist sowohl intellektuell überzogen als auch derb und spöttisch gegenüber bürgerlichen Konventionen. Trotz seiner Feinde, die er genießt, bleibt er ihnen nie aus dem Weg. Der lebendige Geist Enderbys kämpft in einem zunehmend verfallenden Körper – fettsüchtig, kurzsichtig, zahnlos und mit Angina Pectoris. Er hält das Leben fest, obwohl es ihm mit jeder Herzattacke mehr entgleitet. Er nutzt die Freiheit des „So-und-nicht-anders-Sein“ bis zum letzten Moment und hinterlässt sein Beispiel als Testament für diejenigen, die es verstehen. Der Roman besticht durch sprachliche Eigenwilligkeit, geistreiche Aphorismen, scharfe Ironie und eine derbe Deftigkeit, die ihn einzigartig macht. Diese brillante und bitterböse Satire auf gegenwärtige Trends ist in ihrer gewagten Wortgewalt ohne Vorbild und wird wohl auch ohne Nachfolger bleiben.

A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity. Sadoc, a dying shipping clerk, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity.

A London-hotel barman and poet flees to Tangier after murdering a singer and meets a man who knows about his criminal act

Book by Daniel Angeli, Jean-Paul Dousset

Die Welt der Geheimagenten, Nachrichtenhändler, Auftragsmörder etc. ist eines der letzten Reservate, wo das Abenteuer noch gedeiht - als eine Art romantischer Berufssport. Ein in die Sowjetunion übergelaufener britischer Wissenschaftler soll "heimgeführt" werden, und eine Kreuzfahrt durch die Dardanellen wird angetreten. Die Gefahren der Reise scheinen zunächst nur von der opulenten Speisekarte des Luxusdampfers auszugehen, aber schon werden Schlingen gelegt, Kryptogramme aufgegeben, die Namen der Opfer angekreuzt. Die Geschichte ist überreich an Figuren, deren jede Held eines eigenen kleinen Romans ist: Hillier, der geile und gefräßige Geheimagent bei seinem letzten Auftrag vor der Pensionierung; Roper, der Wissenschaftler, und Brigitte, seine deutsche Frau - eine Erinnerung an das pornographische Erbe des Nationalsozialismus -; Theodorescu, der Connaisseur der Staatsgeheimnisse, in ständiger Begleitung einer Sexualpriesterin. Der Hintergrund ist voller betont unauffälliger Gestalten, die auf ihren großen Augenblick nur zu warten scheinen. Eine "höchst amüsante Mixtur aus logischer Hochstapelei, kalter Routine und geistreicher Frechheit" hat Karl Heinz Kramberg diesen Agentenroman im Bayerischen Rundfunk genannt.

Anthony Burgess' epic work revolves around a writer, Kenneth Marchal Toomey, and the man he is linked to through family ties, Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Toomey, now in his 80s recalls the past

Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer to engage life to the fullest in order to write about it, and his own life was the perfect demonstration of that principle. Reissued to coincide with the centenary of Hemingway's birth, Anthony Burgess's insightful biography traces the rapidly changing scene from a happy, complacent childhood to the grim reality of the First World War and the vulgar unreality of the Second; from the Paris of the 1920s to the Spain of Civil War and the excitements of African safari to the somber last years in Cuba. Hemingway was rich and successful from an early age, yet public acclaim and even the Nobel Prize could not disguise the fact that he was a moody, suffering, and sometimes vicious figure--a man who was finally unable to live with his own image.

Ingrid Bergman - winner of three Academy Awards - tells her own story both onstage and off. The book describes her relationships with the characters she knew and worked with, including Selznick, Garbo, Bogart, Gary Cooper and Ingmar Bergman. Above all, she reveals the story of her personal life - her childhood in Sweden, her marriages (including her dramatic and controversial elopement with Roberto Rossellini), and, in more recent years, her battle against cancer. She died in 1982.

Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of Orwell's 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable as A Clockwork Orange, it is as powerful and unsettling as anything Burgess has written. First published in 1978, its thoughts and ideas still hold very true today.

First Edition. A VG+ copy in a VG+ dust jacket. The book has small bumps to its corners. Rubbing along the bottoms of the covers. The dust jacket has rubs to its spine tips and corners. Light wear to its upper edges.

Napoleon the tyrant, lover, general, and doomed hero are woven together in this story of his life from his early military campaigns and courtships to his exile and death on St. Helena.

Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.

The narrative follows Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a linguist grappling with a brain tumor, as he escapes from the hospital just before surgery. His journey through nighttime London reveals a vibrant world filled with unexpected encounters and adventures, challenging his previously isolated existence. As he navigates this new reality, the boundaries between language and life blur, highlighting themes of connection and the human experience amid personal crisis.

This famous trilogy dissects the racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the chaotic upheaval of Independence. Through a succession of wonderfully colourful characters, Anthony Burgess delineates the conflict and confusion arising from the almost enforced mingling of cultures.

Among Shakespear's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespear the man and invigorates his times. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespear and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history. Anthony Burgess's well-known delight in language infuses his own writing about Shakespear's works. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.

Set in Leningrad, an antiques dealer from Sussex attempts to profit by selling dresses in a city where consumer goods are scarce. As he navigates the complexities of Soviet economics, he uncovers unsettling truths about his own sexuality and that of his American wife, Belinda, who attracts unwanted attention from the authorities. Anthony Burgess delivers a comedic and inventive narrative that explores themes of desire and cultural clash, making this one of his most accessible and humorous works.

"English Literature, A Survey for Students" by Anthony Burgess is a new edition of the original classic survey, first published in 1958 under the author's pen name J. Burgess Wilson. The text has been thoroughly revised and incorporates the developments in English Literature since the 1950s. Illustrations are included to help place the literature under discussion in its social and intellectual context, and a chronological table places the major developments in English Literature in their historical context. There is also a detailed bibliography of other major critical studies listed both generally and chronologically.The new design makes this an easy-to-use reference book for the student, and a most readable volume for all general readers interested in the path of English Literature.

"My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who wants to know Joyce's work but has been scared off by the professors. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are always expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men."--From the Foreword by Anthony Burgess.

From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics. As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further limit family sizes, Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find themselves facing dire choices. Their world transforms into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.

„What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?“ - Das ist das zentrale Problem, das sich für den aggressiv-renitent-sympathischen Alex, Hauptfigur dieses SF-Buches, stellt, welches durch Kubricks geniale Verfilmung zu einem Kultbuch - nicht nur für Jugendliche - in aller Welt geworden ist. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.