Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback)

Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback)

Redesigned and reissued in 2017 to celebrate the 'Burgess Centenary' - 100 years of Anthony Burgess Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems captures the full range and achievement of Anthony Burgess's poetry and verse. It is as daring, original and inventive as the name suggests. The work explores

Collected Poems (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback)

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (1917-93) was an industrious writer. He published over fifty books, thousands of essays, and numerous drafts and fragments survive. He predicted many of the struggles and challenges of his own and the following century. His most famous book is A Clockwork Orange (1962),

Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare the Complete Sonnets and Poems (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

After Prayer: New Sonnets and Other Poems (Guite Malcolm)(Paperback)

This major new poetry collection from bestselling poet and priest Malcolm Guite features more than seventy new and previously unpublished works. At the heart of this collection is a sequence of twenty seven sonnets written in response to George Herbert's exquisite sonnet 'Prayer', each one

This man and music: By Anthony Burgess (Gengaro Christine Lee)(Pevná vazba)

'What can literature and music do for each other?' In This man and music, novelist and composer Anthony Burgess explores the topic, touching on composition, poetry, prose, and his own personal

1985 (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book. The first is a sharp analysis: through dialogues, parodies and essays, Burgess sheds new light on what he called 'an apocalyptic codex of our worst fears', creating a critique that is literature

Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961 - 1993 (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback)

A new selection of Anthony Burgess's best reviews and

A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems (Davidman Joy)(Paperback)

Displays for the first time the complete work of a neglected poetic genius Although best known as C. S. Lewis's wife, Joy Davidman was a gifted writer herself who produced, among other things, two novels and an award-winning volume of poetry in her short lifetime. The first comprehensive

Obscenity & The Arts (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

Cyrano de Bergerac: Translated by Anthony Burgess (Rostand Edmond)(Paperback)

With energetically witty English verse throughout, Anthony Burgess' translation of this well-loved 19th-century French classic about the swordsman-poet with the nose too large to be taken seriously was first acclaimed in the 1985 Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Derek Jacobi, then in

Sonnets And Narrative Poems (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of

A Vision of Battlements: By Anthony Burgess (Biswell Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and

Little Wilson and Big God (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the

Shakespeare (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary

Complete Enderby (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

Whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges

Greek Verse for Ophelia and Other Poems - Giovanni Quessep(Paperback / softback)

Peace of Wild Things - And Other Poems (Berry Wendell)(Paperback / softback)

Notes on the Sonnets (Kennard Luke)(Paperback / softback)

Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party. Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard's affectionate critique to subjects as various

The Wanting Seed (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback)

Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both

A Clockwork Orange (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback)

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society

Malayan Trilogy (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

'Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. Through Crabbe's rise and fall and a series of wonderfully colourful characters, Burgess lays bare racial and social prejudices of post-war Malaya during the upheaval of

Clockwork Orange (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible

Clockwork Orange (Burgess Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends who 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

Life of the Party - If A Girl Screams, and Other Poems (Gatwood Olivia)(Paperback / softback)