Shakespeare

Burgess, Anthony

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Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. His portrait of the age builds upon an almost personal tenderness for Shakespeare and his contemporaries (especially Ben Jonson), and on a profound sense of literary and theatrical history.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-959911-1

Product TypeBook

BindingPaperback

FormatB-format paperback

PublisherRandom House UKVintage Classics

Publication countryUnited Kingdom

Publishing date08/08/1996

SeriesVintage Lives

Pages256 pages

LanguageEnglish

SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 16 mm

Weight181 g

Article no.3609400

CatalogsBuchzentrum

Data source no.17614876

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Shakespeare

Flush

Roger Fry

Charlotte Bronte

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Burgess, Anthony

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He served in the British army from 1940 to 1946 and was a schoolteacher in England before becoming a colonial education officer in 1954. His Malayan trilogy of novels and a history of English literature were published while he was living in Malaya and Brunei.He became a full-time writer in 1959 and achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the most versatile novelists of his day. His writings include biographies of Shakespeare and Hemingway, critical studies of James Joyce, stage plays, and two volumes of autobiography. His work as a composer and librettist includes the Broadway musical, Cyrano, and Blooms of Dublin, an operetta based on Joyce's Ulysses.His 33 novels continue to be published all over the world. They include A Clockwork Orange, Nothing Like the Sun, The Complete Enderby, Earthly Powers, Napoleon Symphony, and Beard's Roman Women, a collaboration with the photographer David Robinson.Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993.