Fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends start an evening’s mayhem by hitting an old man, tearing up his books and stripping him of money and clothes.
Or rather Alex and his three droogs tolchock an old veck, razrez his books, pull off his...
Abba Abba is about two poets who may or may not have met in Rome in 1820-1821. One was John Keats, who was dying in a house on the Spanish Steps. The other was Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli a great poet, though little known outside Rome. The first...
Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent. Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties...
"A brilliant and breathless performance…vintage Burgess… The whole performance stuns." – The Boston Globe
"Readers will howl with laughter – a wickedly amusing book." – The Atlantic Monthly
"Resurrected by popular request… Enderby the...
Inside Mr Enderby is a the first volume in the four-book Enderby series of comic novels by the British author Anthony Burgess.
The book was first published in 1963 in London by William Heinemann under the pseudonym Joseph Kell. The series began...
La pregunta que plantea este libro, una de las obras fundamentales en la literatura del siglo XX, no debería ser la más obvia, la que aparece en la superficie del texto: `¿Es el hombre un ser violento?`, sino: `¿Es la sociedad violenta con sus...