В основе сюжета история, рассказанная Алексом - подростком, сколотившим банду ровесников, промышляющую разбоем и насилием. Отбывая наказание за убийство, он становится участником эксперимента, который должен \\\"вылечить\\\" жестокого подростка. Финал романа остаётся открытым....

This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism....

The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world that overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world of spacelessness where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality (\\\"It\"s Sapiens to be Homo\\\")....

The fully restored fiftieth anniversary edition Foreword by Martin Amis First published by William Heinemann in 1962, A Clockwork Orange is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century....

Anthony Burgess was one of the UK\'s leading academics and most respected literary figures. A prolific author, during his writing career Burgess found success as a novelist, critic, composer, playwright, screenwriter, travel writer, essayist, poet and librettist, as well as working as a translator, broadcaster, linguist and educationalist....

Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?...

\"One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn\" Irish Times A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe....

\"Crowded, crammed, bursting with manic erudition, garlicky puns, omnilingual jokes... which meshes the real and personalised history of the twentieth century\" (Martin Amis). Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo......

\"Penguin Decades\" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their......

A satiric trilogy about the last days of English Colonialism in Malaya in 1950s. \"Like all good comic writers Mr Burgess lives his creations as much as he writes them. First class\" Observer Anthony Burgess was an officer in the Colonial Service....

Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess\'s first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts....

Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectability by a glamorous wife, aftershave and the dolce vita....

\"What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence\". In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage......

Anthony Burgess\"s nightmare vision of a society overrun by nihilistic violence and governed by a menacing totalitarian state, A Clockwork Orange includes an introduction by Blake Morrison in Penguin Modern Classics. Fifteen-year-old Alex......

Энтони Берджесса - английского прозаика, поэта, литературоведа, лингвиста и композитора - по праву называют одним из величайших интеллектуалов своего времени. \\\"Заводной апельсин\\\" - самое знаменитое произведение автора. Оно принесло ему мировую славу и одновременно скандальную известность отца-основателя \\\"киберпанковской субкультуры\\\"....