Anthony Burgess

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 assurance of their salvation but should pursue it. Burgess provides helpful advice for avoiding a presumptuous spirit while developing a humble confidence in grace....

Time for a Tiger is the compelling first novel in Anthony Burgess's The Malayan Trilogy (The Long Day Wanes), a vibrant and often humorous exploration of colonial Malaya in the twilight of British rule. Drawing from his own experiences as an English teacher in Southeast Asia, Burgess crafts a richly detailed portrait of a multicultural society grappling with change, conflict, and identity. Set in the 1950s, the story revolves around Victor Crabbe,...

“The Devil Prefers Mozart” is the first comprehensive collection of Anthony Burgess's writings about music. In this extensive compilation of essays and reviews, he covers a vast range of musical topics, from the hurdy-gurdy to Beatlemania and the Sex Pistols, with Burgess's love of English music represented by writings on Elgar, Holst, and Delius. There are essays on Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz and Wagner and other great composers from...

The Enemy in the Blanket is the second novel in Anthony Burgess's The Malayan Trilogy (The Long Day Wanes), continuing his vivid and satirical exploration of colonial Malaya during the waning days of British rule. A sharp critique of cultural clashes and personal ambition, this novel examines the challenges of loyalty, identity, and self-interest in a rapidly changing society. The story centers on Victor Crabbe, a British expatriate and schoolmaster,...

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. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...

"Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. 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 extravagantly funny and grimly serious."

At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.