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Cyrano de Bergerac: by Edmund Rostand translated by Anthony Burgess
Edmund Rostand
Applause Books, 2000
An exquisite tragi-comedy
If there's one thing that has me miffed, it's those ridiculous academic critiques of this play. Yes, it's unrealistic, yes, it's energetic to the point of insanity, yes, the character of Cyrano is particularly vulnerable to the ridiculous Freudian analyses that Lit. ...
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Oedipus the King. (Minnesota Drama Editions)
Anthony Burgess
University of Minnesota Press, 1972
Naxos recording perhaps a bit too modern
The only budget series of audio books and recorded drama comes from Naxos. One of their more recent entries is a very modern version of Sophocles' in a translation by Duncan Steen. In fact, some might find it a little too modern with its use of idiomatic expressions ...
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Penguin Books, 1994
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A Clockwork Orange (Norton Paperback Fiction)
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 1986
A Clockwork Orange
In response to one of other reviewers,
That, what you call "made-up slang" is a language called dsat which is more or less Russian words written using the English alphabet. "Horror Show" for example translates to "good", because if you say horrorshow in one word ...
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Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life (Norton Paperback Fiction)
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
Nothing Like The Sun
Anthony Burgess's "Nothing Like The Sun" is a linguistic marvel. It is a philosophically oppressive look at William Shakespeare's foray into literature and the world. Starting in the small 'borough' of Stratford, WS (as he is called) is an apprentice leather ...
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Bach, Beethoven and the Boys - Tenth Anniversary Edition!: Music History As It Ought To Be Taught
David W. Barber
Sound And Vision, 1996
This is a book of HUMOR!
Um . . . this is a book of humor, not a book on music history. Well, maybe you have to be a music teacher who has struggled with teaching music history to 12-year-olds who are forced to be in your class to fully appreciate it all. I thought it was hilarious, but ...
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Honey for the Bears (Norton Paperback Fiction)
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
Russian to Sell the Satire
Anthony Burgess' "Honey for the Bears," is a fast paced farcical satire set in Cold War period Soviet Russia. Following an antiques dealer and his wife as the two attempt to sell cheep dresses on the black market as a favor to a friend. Sexual morays and British ...
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The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 1996
Better than Clockwork Orange... Yes!
(Written for Worm's Sci Fi Haven by countezero, more of his reviews can be read here: www.wormsscifi.com/haven)
Had Anthony Burgess done something more than write novels that read like fiendishly clever jokes played out at the expense of the literati, he may very ...
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The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard
J. G. Ballard
Picador, 2001
Some of the best short fiction
This is some of the best short fiction ever written. A friend of mine lent me this book. I've read a lot more J.G Ballard because I loved this book so much, but have not enjoyed Ballards other work as much. Most of the stories deal with mans struggle to cope - with ...
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The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy (The Norton Library)
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993
A Must Have for Ex-pats and Students of Asian Affairs
This ranks as one of the funniest books ever written, while being at the same time a social history of Malaysia, or Malaya as it was known under British Rule. The first book of the trilogy deals with the last days of British colonialism (hence the title "The Long Day ...
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La Naranja Mecanica
Anthony Burgess
Minotauro, 2005
exelenteeeee
un libro cautivador,violento, unpoko de sexo, y con una lesion q aprenderlo recomiendo al maximooooooooooo
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A Dead Man in Deptford (Burgess, Anthony)
Anthony Burgess
Da Capo Press, 2003
Stick With It, It's Worth It
While some have said this is a difficult book (and I must admit I felt that way at first) if you relax and stick with it you'll find that it will begin to flow very smoothly. Burgess takes us into the mind of Marlowe; his images are vivid. There were many passages ...
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Tremor of Intent: A Novel
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 2004
a damn decent read...
i hate giving huge descriptions about books and how the characters are and the problems of the book. to put it simply if you like anthony burgess and you like spy stories with a great ending then pick this book up. the history and development of the main characters was ...
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One Hand Clapping: A Novel
Anthony Burgess
Da Capo Press, 1999
a slap at the "who wants to be a millionaire?" crowd
One Hand Clapping is a short, bitterly humorous look at a British working-class couple who strive to win a fortune on a TV quiz show, then spend their fortune in a rather peculiar fashion. Although Once Hand Clapping was written in the early 1960s it's satiric ...
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Re Joyce
Anthony Burgess
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
ReJoyce fair readers, for your guide to the labrynth is here
Without a doubt, an attempt to read the works of James Joyce, one of the most demanding authors to live (and one of the best as well) comes with no small amount of trepidation. But thankfully, the Joycian disciple Anthony Burgess has written the book for both the ...
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