Easton Press Anthony Burgess books:
A Clockwork Orange - 1986
Franklin Library Anthony Burgess books:
Kingdom of the Wicked - signed first edition - 1985
Little Wilson and Big God - signed first edition - 1987
Kingdom of the Wicked
A Roman saga, taking in the excesses of Tiberius, Caligula and Nero and an irreverent account of the early days of Christianity. Sadoc, a dying shipping clerk, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity.
"Who, I ask you, wants to drag his bones out of the earth, re-clothed in flesh, which, in some foul magic of reversal, is regurgitated by the worms, in order that his eyes may see God? Who, I ask you, wants to live forever?"
Sadoc, son of Azor, a retired shipping clerk lying diseased and dying on the outreaches of the Roman Empire, sets down for future generations a tale of epic proportions: he is charged with recounting no less an event than the birth of Christianity. And what an account it is - the story of a religion of love, born into the cruelties of the kingdom of the wicked.
'The Kingdom of the Wicked' is one of Anthony Burgess' most ambitious novels. Its ancient setting, recreated in vivid and meticulous detail, is rendered new in this stunning account of the Roman Empire and its clashes with Christianity.
Offers a portrait of the author's first forty years, from his childhood in Manchester to the moment when, having been told he was dying, he began to write seriously.
A Clockwork Orange
In
Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals
take over after dark. Teen gang leader Alex narrates in fantastically
inventive slang that echoes the violent intensity of youth rebelling
against society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a
frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom.
A
vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963
classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where
criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central
character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly
renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a
frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom.
And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel
asks, "At what cost?"
Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like
ultra-violence he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's Ninth. He
and his gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible
thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and
subject to the ministrations of Dr. Brodsky, the government
psychologist, he discovers that fun is no longer the order of the day...
The basis for one of the most notorious films ever made, A
Clockwork Orange is both a virtuoso performance from an electrifying
prose stylist and a serious exploration of the morality of free will.
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