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1	Clockwork Orange more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish urban landscape until ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Cyrano de Bergerac: By Edmund Rostand Translated by Anthony Burgess more books like this by Edmund Rostand, Edmond Rostand, Anthony Burgess (Translator) add to wishlist This translation of Rostand's classic story is "a crowd pleaser . . . sumptuous, rousing" ("Newsweek"). "Emotional depth Rostand himself would surely have envied . . . Burgess' extravagant verse keeps its contours, yet trips off the tongue almost as though it were contemporary speech".--"London Times". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.63! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bach, Beethoven and the Boys - Tenth Anniversary Edition!: Music History as It Ought to Be Taught more books like this by David W Barber, Dave Donald (Illustrator), Anthony Burgess (Preface by) add to wishlist This work is a history of music with mirth! Learn and laugh at the same time, whatever your musical abilities or aspirations. "Bach, Beethoven and the Boys" is a witty and irreverent volume that lampoons traditional academic history, highlights fascinating and little known facts, and takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the history of music. It is a ... see all copies from $2.23! new only from $7.06!
4	Earthly Powers more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist Anthony Burgess' epic masterpiece traces eighty-one years in the life of a Somerset Maugham-type writer and lapsed Catholic called Kenneth Toomey. A popular, second-rate novelist/playwright, he spends a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to reconcile his homosexuality with his faith. This is also the story of Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.90! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Wanting Seed more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist In the near future, Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where population control measures sanctioned by the government glorify homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dinning-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. The novel maintains Burgess's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Honey for the bears more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist On a trip to Leningrad, English antique dealer Paul Hussey finds it more difficult than he expected to sell 20 dozen dresses on the black market. Meanwhile his American wife Belinda who is coming to terms with her latent lesbianism, has disappeared into a Soviet Hospital. This novel was inspired by the same trip to Leningrad that also inspired ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Little Wilson & Big God more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist The long-awaited autobiography of the distinguished, highly acclaimed author of A Clockwork Orange and Earthly Powers, offering a richly detailed and unforgettable portrait of his first forty years, from his childhood in Manchester to the moment when he began seriously to write. To be published on his 70th birthday--February 25th, 1987. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Kingdom of the Wicked more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist A historical novel by Anthony Burgess, originally written for a television mini-series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.14! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Doctor is Sick more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been diagnosed with a brain tumor; the day before his surgery, he escapes from the hospital and has a series of adventures in the London underworld. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Nothing Like the Sun more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist One of Burgess's most acclaimed novels, Nothing Like the Sun has been out of print for over 10 years. An audacious and pacey romp through the life of William Shakespeare, it has long been regarded as the classic Shakespeare novel. From his humble origins to his exalted status as England's premier playwright and on to his tragic death, Burgess ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.37! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Dead Man in Deptford more books like this by Burgess add to wishlist Burgess wrote this fictionalized life of Christopher Marlowe to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Marlowe's death in 1593. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.34! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Re Joyce more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist This insightful study of James Joyce's life and work by the novelist Anthony Burgess remains an unusual but immensely valuable contribution to Joyce scholarship. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $8.77! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Ernest Hemingway and His World more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.00! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Twilight in Italy; Sea and Sardinia; Etruscan Places more books like this by Anthony Burgess, D H Lawrence add to wishlist A collection of three travel sketches on Italy, written when Lawrence was at the height of his creative powers. This edition features an introduction by Anthony Burgess. see all copies from $2.12! new only from $8.75!
15 view cover	A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages-- Especially English more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had "made it out of a mouthful of air". Burgess advances this point by presenting a fascinating survey of language--how it operates, and how it will develop in the future--that ranges from Shakespearean pronunciation to the place of English in the world family of languages. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.90! \| first editions
16 view cover	This Man & Music more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist Anthony Burgess was the author of over 50 books, including his best known novel, "A Clockwork Orange." But Burgess always emphasized music as the ruling passion in his creative life. Largely self-taught in music, Burgess composed his first symphony before he was twenty, many years before his first novel, and he was the composer of over 65 musical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.89! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	If It Ain't Baroque: More Music History as It Ought to Be Taught more books like this by David W Barber, Dave Donald (Illustrator), Anthony Burgess (Photographer) add to wishlist This work is a history of music with mirth! Learn and laugh at the same time, whatever your musical abilities or aspirations. Having taken a lighter look at the great composers of history, "If It Ain't Baroque..." aims to do the same with their greatest works. From symphonies to solos, from motets to madrigals and masses, this volume humorously ... see all copies from $2.16! new only from $16.40! \| first editions
18 view cover	The End of the World News: An Entertainment more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $73.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange more books like this by Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick (Screenwriter) add to wishlist This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from "A Clockwork Orange, " selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released in 1971. As Kubrick comments in his introduction: "I have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete graphic ... see all copies from $3.29! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
20	Enderby's dark lady, or, No end to Enderby more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist see all copies from $14.00! first editions
22	The Shorter Finnegans Wake more books like this by Anthony Burgess (Editor), James Joyce add to wishlist see all copies from $4.72!
23 view cover	The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist Also known as the "Malayan Trilogy," Burgess's THE LONG DAY WANES was originally published in three volumes. In the first, Victor Crabbe, a British schoolmaster, arrives in Malaya in search of a new life and a new culture in which he can escape the guilt he feels over the accidental drowning death of his first wife. In the second volume Crabbe ... see all copies from $4.44! new only from $9.39! \| first editions \| SVS
24	But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Byrne more books like this by Anthony Burgess add to wishlist A novel in verse form, "Byrne" echoes and takes further many of the preoccupations of Burgess's earlier fiction. It tells the story of a rampant Irish artist who, in the early days of the century, goes rapidly to the bad and ends up within Hitler's Third Reich. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.61! \| first editions \| SVS

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