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Anthony Burgess
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East? They wouldn’t know the bloody East if they saw it. Not if you was to hand it to them on a plate would they know it was the East.
— Time for a Tiger (1956)
Anthony Burgess
English writer and composer (1917–1993)
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Updated 2026-06-11
A Clockwork Orange made him permanently visible — dystopian satire with invented slang that became shorthand for ultraviolence and state control. But Burgess wrote nearly sixty books, composed over 250 pieces of music, and considered himself a composer first.
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson was born 25 February 1917 in England and became a writer who worked primarily in comic modes. A Clockwork Orange, his dystopian satire, remains his best-known novel, though he produced dozens more — the Enderby quartet, Earthly Powers, librettos, screenplays including the 1977 mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for The Observer and The Guardian, wrote studies of James Joyce, lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, and Carmen. In 1973 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He composed over 250 m…
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Anthony Burgess
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Nabby Adams, supine on the bed, grunted. It was four o’clock in the morning and he did not want to be talking.
— Time for a Tiger (1956)
Anthony Burgess
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And make up your mind about what bloody race you belong to.
— Time for a Tiger (1956)
Anthony Burgess
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings.
— Time for a Tiger (1956)
Anthony Burgess
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What you could do with is a nice strong cup of tea, sir. I’ll tell the kuki to make you one.’ ‘Does it really do any good, Nabby?
— Time for a Tiger (1956)
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Now attention30.8
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