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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...

Denis Hillier is an aging British agent on his last assignment. His old school friend Roper defected to the USSR long ago, to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must persuade, or force, Roper to come back to England or risk losing his retirement fund. However, he...

Average couple Janet and Howard's lives begin to unravel when Howard's photographic memory helps win him a gameshow fortune. Janet doesn't want their lives to change that much. She's quite happy working at the supermarket, cooking for her husband three times a day and watching quiz shows in the evening. But once Howard unleashes his photographic brain on the world, the once modest used-car salesman can't seem to stop.

As governments struggle to maintain order in the face of overpopulation and food shortages and homosexuality is glorified in an attempt to further limit family sizes, Tristram Foxe and his wife Beatrice-Joanna find themselves facing dire choices. Their world transforms into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger.

Thomas discovered he was special in a very particular way: by falling through a portal and landing in the middle of a medieval battlefield. He learns that his very existence as a male mage defies one of the core truths of this world: only women can use magic. And yet, his power is real—and unlike anything they’ve ever seen before.

Clássico eterno da ficção científica, Laranja mecânica é um verdadeiro marco na história da cultura pop e da literatura distópica. Narrada pelo protagonista, o adolescente Alex, esta brilhante e perturbadora história cria uma sociedade futurista em que a violência atinge proporções gigantescas e provoca uma resposta igualmente agressiva de um governo totalitário.

A big black bear has arrived in the Green Forest—and nothing will ever be quite the same again. Buster Bear is enormous, curious, and always hungry. When he moves into the Green Forest near the Laughing Brook, the smaller animals do not know what to think. Some are frightened, some are...

Brought to you by Penguin. In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his...

Join the clever and mischievous Reddy Fox in a delightful journey through the Green Forest in Thornton W. Burgess's classic tale, The Adventures of Reddy Fox. When Reddy’s cunning tricks catch up with him, he finds himself in a series of thrilling escapades that challenge his wits and test his courage. From outsmarting foes to learning valuable lessons, Reddy’s adventures are filled with humor, excitement, and timeless wisdom.

It is not uncommon for professing Christians to question the genuineness of their faith. In seasons like this, they can wonder whether it is even possible to know for sure if they are in a state of saving grace. In this book, Anthony Burgess shows that Christians not only can come to an...

In John 17, Jesus prayed for the unity of the church. Yet today, we tend to accept disunity as inevitable. In this book, Anthony Burgess calls us to addresses the spiritual and visible unity that Jesus desires for His people. Burgess speaks of how union and communion with Christ and His people...

Nick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic...but he soon finds himself in over his head when his affair with Vickie, an unhappily married homemaker, results in an accidental pregnancy. Vickie abandons Nick, leaving him to raise their biracial daughter, Lynn, alone. Overwhelmed by the difficulties of single fatherhood and seeking comfort and help for himself in that stressful journey, Nick dates numerous women who will change his life forever.

Cyrano is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents whose whimsical aptitude for the spoken word is overshadowed by an attribute that is iconic, outrageous, and gigantic - his nose. How can the curiously snouted Cyrano ever hope to win the affections of the beautiful Roxane?

Brutale Überfälle gehören zu ihrem Alltag, die Schmerzensschreie ihrer Opfer sind ihr Lebenselixier: Täglich berauschen sich Alex und seine Gang an Alkohol, Drogen, Sex und Gewalt. Doch als eines ihrer Opfer stirbt, wird Alex zu 14 Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt. Er kann seiner Strafe nur entgehen, wenn er an einem Experiment teilnimmt, das ihn zu einem ungefährlichen Bürger machen soll. Gebrochen und willenlos wird er in die Freiheit entlassen – dort trifft er auf seine Opfer.

Novo romance do neurocientista Miguel Nicolelis — no país onde a Justiça virou mero desfile e um regime de exceção veste fantasia, um julgamento simbólico decide o futuro da memória.Durante o Carnaval e em pleno colapso institucional, um grupo de personagens insólitos — entre eles um...

Mechanický pomeranč je kultovním, značně neobvyklým dílem. Týnština, jazyk, který autor používá, je naprosto unikátní a dává knize nový rozměr. Dílo je zpovědí násilnického Alexe o jeho brutálních činech a jeho „napravení“ v obludném experimentu. Kritika společnosti na příkladu antiutopie zasazené do Londýna roku 1982. Neveselá budoucnost s duchovně vyprázdněnou společností, kde na jedné straně řádí násilnické gangy a na druhé se formuje mocichtivá vláda s politiky. Kniha byla časopisem Time vybrána mezi sto nejlepších anglicky psaných románů a stala se předlouhou dvěma filmům. Vinyl v režii Andy Warhola a Mechanický pomeranč od Stanley Kubricka.

F.X. Enderby travels to Indiana in order to impress the Hoosiers with his musical script on the career of Shakespeare and falls in love with a nightclub singer.

Relocated to New York for The Clockwork Testament, or, Enderby's End, Enderby has to defend himself and his first film scenario, which he based on a poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins but - shades of Burgess's A Clockwork Orange - was transmogrified into an X-rated movie.

Nothing Like the Sun is a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life. Starting with the young Will, the novel is a romp that follows Will's maturation into sex and writing. It is at the same time a serious look at the forces that midwife art, the effects of time and place, and the ordinariness that is found side by side with extraordinariness of genius.

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator 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 but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.