Anthony Burgess: 20 books

"Wildly inventive" —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve A magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of...

"Fine, sly, rich comedy. . . "—The New York Times Book Review Dr. Edwin Spindrift has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than to people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. When he escapes from the hospital the night before his surgery,...

Crabbe is made headmaster of a school in Dahaga, in the east coast of Malaya (in an introduction to the trilogy, he identifies the sultanate as Kota Baharu in Kelantan).

The title is taken from a line spoken by Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra II.vi.49-52: 'The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,/That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;/For I have gain'd by 't.

A caring family finds themselves in the middle of a major flooding event over parts of their community from a far-reaching storm system. Creativity, episodes of curiosity, and a unique surprise from nature follow in series, as the children's patience is challenged and parents are tasked to remain hopeful in making a long-planned trip to grandma's house

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic paradigms. GlobalRomanticism: Origins, Orientations, andEngagements, 1760–1820 charts a new intellectual...