Anthony Burgess

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...

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 world rampant with overpopulation.

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent....

Sometimes when I'm at work and waiting for customers I think about the two of us living like kings and not bothering about the future. Because there may not be any future to bother about, you know. Not for anybody, one of these days. And it's a wicked world. Average couple Janet and Howard's...

Mechanický pomeranč je kultovním, značně neobvyklým dílem. Týnština, jazyk, který autor používá, je naprosto unikátní a dává knize nový rozměr...

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...

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.