BURGESS ANTHONY

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Ο δεκαπεντάχρονος 'Αλεξ απολαμβάνει τους βιασμούς, τα ναρκωτικά και την Ενάτη Συμφωνία του Μπετόβεν. Ως αρχηγός μιας συμμορίας εφήβων, περιπλανιέται στους δρόμους ενός δυστοπικού μέλλοντος αναζητώντας φρικτές συγκινήσεις. Όταν ο Άλεξ συλλαμβάνεται και φυλακίζεται για την αποκλίνουσα συμπεριφορά του, το Κράτος αναλαμβάνει να τον αναμορφώσει... αλλά με ποιο κόστος; Το απαράμιλλο λογοτεχνικά επίτευγμα που ενέπνευσε την ομότιτλη ταινία του Στάνλεϊ Κιούμπρικ και συμπεριλήφθηκε στη λίστα του περιοδικού ΤIME με τα 100 κορυφαία μυθιστορήματα της ...
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(P/B) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's Ninth, He and his gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, the government psychologist, he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day... (from the publisher)...
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ΕΡΝΕΣΤ ΧΕΝΙΝΓΟΥΕΙ, ΜΙΑ ΖΩΗ ΣΑΝ ΜΥΘΟΠΛΑΣΙΑ
Σε αντίθεση με άλλους συγγραφείς οι οποίοι έμειναν στην ιστορία της λογοτεχνίας μόνο λόγω των βιβλίων τους (έχοντας να επιδείξουν μια συνήθως άχαρη, μονότονη και τετριμμένη ζωή), ο Χέμινγουεϊ είναι εξίσου γνωστός για την έντονη ζωή που έζησε. Σε αυτή την κλασική πλέον βιογραφία που έγραψε ο Άντονι Μπέρτζες, συγγραφέας του περίφημου μυθιστορήματος "Το κουρδιστό πορτοκάλι", η περιπετειώδης ζωή και ο τραγικός θάνατος του νομπελίστα συγγραφέα βρίσκονται σε πρώτο πλάνο. (. . .) (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)...
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(P/B) A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The Gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fuelled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside. Anthony Burgess's play with music, based on his own provocative 19...
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(P/B) BYRNE
Byrne is Anthony Burgess's final work: an epic verse novel. Michael Byrne is a minor modern composer with greater talent in bed than in the concert hall. A bigamist, a charmer and a thug, Byrne sells his talents as a composer and painter, ending up in Hitler's Third Reich. He moves opportunistically from country to country and from bed to bed, leaving a small tribe of children across the globe. He then vanishes and the story passes to his children, including twin sons, one a doubting priest, the other sick of an incapacitating disease, wh...
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(P/B) EARTHLY POWERS
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PONTYPOOL CHANGES EVERYTHING
The compelling, terrifying story of a devastating virus. Have you ever imagined what it would be like to kill someone? Wondered, in your darkest secret thoughts, about the taste of human flesh? What if you woke up and began your morning by devoting the rest of your life to a murderous rampage, a never-ending cannibalistic spree? And what if you were only one of thousands who shared the same compulsion? Well, today's your lucky day: in fact, by this afternoon, the predators will outnumber the prey. Pontypool Changes Everything depicts just ...
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(P/B) A DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD
A 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 theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE MALAYAN TRILOGY
Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service. In The Malayan Trilogy - Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East - he satirises the dog days of colonialism. Victor Crabbe is a well meaning, ineffectual English man in the tropics, keen to teach the Malays what the West can do for them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of Independence. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) YOU'VE HAD YOUR TIME
This is the second volume of Anthony Burgess's autobiography (the first was Little Wilson and Big God). The narrative begins in 1959, with the author's return from Brunei and the start of a professional writing career and ends in 1982 with the centenary celebrations of James Joyce's birth, which prompt the author to certain conclusions about the relationship between literature and life. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) REVOLUTIONARY SONNETS
Revolutionary Sonnets is as daring, original and inventive as the name suggest. The work explores themes of violence and love, pretensions and emotion, sex and war and is both sobering, and hysterically funny. For the first time the full range and achievement of Anthony Burgess's poetry and verse are set out, rather spectacularly, before the public. The author of major novels, essays and reviews, the lecturer whose dazzling take on T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land changed our reading of the poem, is - like Eliot himself - a prosodic genius an...
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(P/B) ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Ernest Hemingway was arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century, the Nobel Prize-winning author of such classics as For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, and a man who lived his life with as much passion and intensity as many of the characters in his novels. With exceptional insight, Anthony Burgess traces Hemingway's singular life: from complacent childhood to the horrors of the First and Second World Wars to the glamour of Paris in the '20s; from Civil War Spain to the excitements of African sa...
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(P/B) LITTLE WILSON AND BIG GOD
This is the first volume of Anthony Burgess's two-volume autobiography. It tells the story of a disaffected Manchester Catholic from his birth in 1917 up to the commencement, in 1959, of his career as a professional writer. Born Jack Wilson, Burgess grew up in one of the toughest areas of Manchester between the wars. His childhood in his stepmother's rowdy slummy pub, and later in a tobacconist's shop and an off-licence in Moss Side, offered little in the way of love, though later, in the attic bedroom he shares with a succession of putati...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE ENDERBY
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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE EVE OF ST VENUS
Ambrose and Diana are to be married. However, Diana is having last-minute doubts fuelled by her feminist friend and bridesmaid Julia, while Ambrose inadvertently becomes engaged to the goddess Venus, who has taken possession of the wedding ring. These obstacles present the first in a farcical series of challenges - not only to the impending wedding, but also to the most dearly held preconceptions of Ambrose, Diana, and their wedding guests. "Why can't a goddess of love be a tangible aspect of the terrible, unknowable deity? ...I don't see ...
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(P/B) WANTING SEED
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 dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious. (From the publisher)...
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EARTHLY POWERS

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