- Fiction in English, Utopias, Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
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.
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- gravecomic
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- Author
- Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- MINOTAURO, Little, Brown, TBS/GBS/Transworld
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781907616006
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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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