@IrwellEdition

The collected novels and non-fiction of Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

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Shem Macnamara was “a barn-sleeping, hedge-dragged, sturdy beggar.” Inside Mr. Enderby Anthony Burgess
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionJan 5
Anthony Burgess contemplates the shelves of his own books in the reading room at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester.
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionAug 20
We are looking forward to the forthcoming reprint of Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements by Anthony Burgess. Here's a selection of previous covers from France, Germany and America. @Galileobooks will publish this autumn in paperback and ebook.
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionOct 21
Ian Penman has written a long essay for the @LRB about the chaotic genius of Anthony Burgess. He makes a case for Tremor of Intent, recently reprinted by @Galileobooks as the best of AB's novels. Follow the link to discover more. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/…
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionOct 26
Some impressive book covers for these Hungarian translations of Anthony Burgess. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE on the right. THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT is on the left.
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Some impressive book covers for these Hungarian translations of Anthony Burgess. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE on the right. THE CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT is on the left.
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionOct 19
In the latest Anthony Burgess Newsletter, AB goes to Barcelona to admire the architecture of Antoni Gaudí. When George Orwell visited in 1936, he said that the church of the Sagrada Familia should be blown up. anthonyburgessfoundation.sub…
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Paula Wilson@wilson_pau43063Oct 22
"...a wild disruptive pleasure in itself". Entertaining review about Anthony Burgess by Ian Penman in London Review of Books (October 8th 2026)
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Today (being the 29 Vendémiaire in the Year 235) we have released a new Inside Anthony Burgess podcast about NAPOLEON SYMPHONY. anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/…
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Napoleon to his army: 'You ungrateful and cowardly bastards, not one decent cubic millimetre of man’s sperm in the f***ing lot of you, I’ll turn you over to the Turks to have great men’s rods stuck up your wincing sweet little arseholes, that’s what I’ll do.'
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Ian Penman has written a long essay for the @LRB about the chaotic genius of Anthony Burgess. He makes a case for Tremor of Intent, recently reprinted by @Galileobooks as the best of AB's novels. Follow the link to discover more. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n18/…
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The new Taiwanese translation of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess has landed.
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionApr 27
Georges Belmont was Anthony Burgess’s French translator. A close friend of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, he also translated novels by Graham Greene, Henry Miller, Evelyn Waugh and Erica Jong.
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionOct 19
Sven Schelker as Alex in the new stage production of A Clockwork Orange at @EDT_Hamburg The director is Franziska Autzen. Further details and tickets here: ernst-deutsch-theater.de/pro…
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Sven Schelker as Alex in the new stage production of A Clockwork Orange at @EDT_Hamburg The director is Franziska Autzen. Further details and tickets here: ernst-deutsch-theater.de/pro…
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In the latest Anthony Burgess Newsletter, AB goes to Barcelona to admire the architecture of Antoni Gaudí. When George Orwell visited in 1936, he said that the church of the Sagrada Familia should be blown up. anthonyburgessfoundation.sub…
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEdition15 Apr 2024
Anthony Burgess worked as a British Army Education instructor in Gibraltar from 1943 until 1946.
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEdition29 Apr 2025
A gold-painted wooden cherub from the archive of Anthony Burgess. It was found after his death in his house near Rome, and is now at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester.
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The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionOct 17
A Clockwork Orange on stage at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg.
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Zoilus@ZoilusPressOct 15
"Christ himself sounds occasionally like a policeman: ‘Stop! No more of that!’ (Luke 22, 49). But, all in all, this is a monumental work of scholarship and a marvellous testimony to the power of our somewhat (in comparison to the tongue of 1611) etiolated English."
The Irwell Edition@IrwellEditionOct 9
Anthony Burgess on the Revised English Bible: "The Book of Job is well done, but I sniff a certain trendiness in ‘Can you bring out the signs of the zodiac in their season?’ as though God were assessing Job’s qualifications to run an astrology column." anthonyburgessfoundation.sub…
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