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Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
A Shorter Finnegans Wake by Anthony Burgess (Editor); James Joyce
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are usually found in most lists of the great classics of the twentieth century. But, as Burgess points out in his introduction: "they are highly idiosyncratic books and 'difficult' books, admired more often than read, when read, rarely read through to the end, when read throug ...Show more
Flame into Being - The Life and Work of DH Lawrence by Anthony Burgess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Burgess considered D. H. Lawrence to be one of the pillars of English literature and indeed a Modernist writer whose work had changed the face of the novel in the early 20th century. Flame into Being was first published in 1985 to mark the centenary of Law- rence's birth and gave Burgess the chance to w ...Show more
Here Comes Everybody - An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader by Anthony Burgess
$29.99 AUD
Category: Reference
"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 ...Show more
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy & Sci-Fi | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
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. ...Show more
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