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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography.

It really is a good little book. In case you didn’t know, Anthony Burgess is the author of the famous A Clockwork Orange.

Entre los numerosos biógrafos de Shakesperare, ninguno aporta al sunto. It really is a good little book. So there’s going to be some skill in the writing. I tend to find biographies dry and boring; however, this was almost uplifting in places.

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than .

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times. 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. And in the verve of his biography he conveys the energy of the Elizabethan age.

In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the . In characteristically daring style, Anthony Burgess combines two responses to Orwell's 1984 in one book

In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. 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 literature in its own right.

Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography, a theatrical history, and a re-creation of the Elizabethan age.

Anthony Burgess Shakespeare. Price: 399 Kč Price for Eshop: 359 Kč (€ 1. ). This biography of William Shakespeare aims to build up a profound sense of literary and theatrical history, and the energy of the Elizabethan age. Ask question. You can ask us about this book and we'll send an answer to your e-mail.

Throughout his career, Anthony Burgess was fascinated by the writing and life of William Shakespeare.

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