- Dramatists, English Dramatists, Fiction, History
Nothing like the sun is an act of homage to William Shakepeare and attempts to answer certain questions about the enigmatic poet's love-life, as well as the relationship of this love-life to his work.
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- gravecomic
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Anthony Burgess
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., W W Norton & Co Inc, Heinemann
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780749079697
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“IT WAS ALL A MATTER OF A GODDESS - dark, hidden, deadly, horribly desirable.”
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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