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  • A Clockwork Orange

    Restored Edition

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviewsEdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'It is a horrorshow story ...'Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Malayan Trilogy

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class'ObserverAnthony 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Clockwork Orange

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. BurroughsFifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Wanting Seed

    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Tremor of Intent

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    Burgess's purpose was to write a novel which would investigate some of the moral grey areas of the Cold War. The book deals with the misappropriation of nuclear secrets by the Russians, following the decision of Edwin Roper, a leading atomic scientist, to leave England and form a new allegiance to the Soviet Union. The novel begins with a long letter written by Roper's old school friend, Denis ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Honey for the Bears

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    Paul Hussey, an antiques dealer from Sussex and his American wife Belinda have arrived in Leningrad. Paul is trying to raise some money by illegally selling dresses to a people rich in cosmonauts but poor in consumer goods. But the logic of Soviet economics proves more dangerous than he ever imagined. Moreover, Leningrad turns out to be a city in which daylight dawns in the middle of the night. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Here Comes Everybody

    An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    'My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who sees all his works available in paperback and is scared more of their content then their price. The appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke; the profundities are usually expressed in good round Dublin terms; Joyce's heroes are humble men. If there was ever a writer for the people, Joyce was that ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • M/F

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    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. But in the streets of Castita's capital, where a wild religious festival is in full swing, a series of bizarre encounters - including his own repulsive doppelgänger (the son of a circus bird-woman) - ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Faith Seeking Assurance

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    Series series Puritan Treasures for Today
    It is not uncommon for professing Christians to question the genuineness of their faith. In seasons like this, they can wonder whether it is even possible to know for sure if they are in a state of saving grace. In this book, Anthony Burgess shows that Christians not only can come to an assurance of their salvation but should pursue it. Burgess provides helpful advice for avoiding a presumptuous ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Odd Moment of Curiosity

    Felix Jasper Series

    by P.Anthony Burgess ...
    Series series Felix Jasper Series
    He woke up in the mud wearing a ruined tuxedo.No name. No past. No memory of how he ended up on a deserted country road.All he has is a battered body and the piercing gaze of a mysterious woman who holds the key to his identity. But before he can piece together who he was, the hunt begins.Behind the stone walls of an ancient fortress, a syndicate of elite powerbrokers has issued a simple command: ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life

    by Anthony Burgess ...
    When, in 1963, Anthony Burgess finally started work on the novel he had long planned to write, a challenge lay ahead of him. There was never any doubt in his mind that his fictional biography of Shakespeare should be written in a language that was, if not exactly that of the late sixteenth century, then an 'approximation to Elizabethan English'. Nothing Like the Sun opens with a young WS (as he is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Shorter Ulysses

    by Anthony Burgess, James Joyce ...
    A Shorter Ulysses was intended to serve as a companion volume to Burgess's A Shorter Finnegans Wake, which he was commissioned to create in 1966. This is the first time that Burgess's shortened version of James Joyce's Ulysses has been published. Describing this commission in his autobiography, Burgess explains that he was asked to create a beginner's abridged version of about 200 pages with a ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD