Anthony Burgess
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, is by far his most famous novel, and was adapted into a famous, if highly controversial, 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick. However, the author later dismissed it as one of his lesser works. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the much loved Enderby quartet, and his 1980 magnum opus, Earthly Powers. He was also a prominent critic, authoring acclaimed studies of…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! John Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, is by far his most famous novel, and was adapted into a famous, if highly controversial, 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick. However, the author later dismissed it as one of his lesser works. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the much loved Enderby quartet, and his 1980 magnum opus, Earthly Powers. He was also a prominent critic, authoring acclaimed studies of classic writers such as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway. Aside from literature, Anthony Burgess was an accomplished musician and linguist. He composed over 250 musical compositions, including his first symphony around age 18, wrote a number of libretti, and translated, amongst others, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King and Carmen.