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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
17.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is the fully restored fiftieth anniversary edition. It includes a foreword by Martin Amis. First published by William Heinemann in 1962, "A Clockwork Orange" is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. This special edition, compiled and edited by Andrew Bis ...Show more
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light o ...Show more
A Long Trip to Teatime by Anthony Burgess
18.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics
Edmund Ironside, Edward the Confessor, Edward the Elder, Edward the Martyr . . . Edgar wearies of an endless history lecture on England's Anglo-Saxon kings and longs for an escape from the classroom--which he finds with a sudden plunge through a tiny hole in his desk. Now Edgar is on the shores of Easte ...Show more
A Shorter Finnegans Wake by Anthony Burgess (Editor); James Joyce
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are usually found in most lists of the great classics of the twentieth century. But, as Burgess points out in his introduction: "they are highly idiosyncratic books and 'difficult' books, admired more often than read, when read, rarely read through to the end, when read throug ...Show more
Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends 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 cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power--Kenneth Toomey, a past-his-prime author of mediocre fiction, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age, living in self-exile o ...Show more
One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life from the acclaimed and bestselling writer Anthony Burgess. Janet Shirley was always impressed by her husband. Even before he began using his special talent to change their lives beyond recognition. The thing is, Janet doesn't want the ...Show more
The Complete Enderby by Anthony Burgess
27.99 AUD
Category: Classics
Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic - is endlessly hounded by women. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita.
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
22.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
From the acclaimed author of the dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed is an inventive, thought-provoking and darkly absurd novel set in a work rampant with overpopulation. The Wanting Seed is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics. ...Show more
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