- Fiction in English, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Humorous stories, Man-woman relationships
"Burgessian" Rome. Like the locations of many of his novels, Rome here takes on a texture that can only exist in Burgess. The plot concerns Mr. John Beard, a hack writer having a hell of a time (so to speak) in the Eternal City.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Anthony Burgess
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 155
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill, Hutchinson, NY+: McGraw-Hill (1976).
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780091284008
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire *A Clockwork Orange* remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, n
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