Anthony Burgess is one of the most prolific and popular novelists of the 20th century. The Anthony Burgess Collection from Beautiful Books will reinforce his pivotal place within British literature.

‘A book as important as it is frightening.’ Daily Telegraph

‘Truly excellent.’ Auberon Waugh

‘Exciting, bleakly fascinating.’ Financial Times

Ingenious, chilling and darkly comic, 1985 combines a devastating critique of Orwell’s 1984 with a terrifying vision of the future. As memorable as A Clockwork Orange, it is as powerful and unsettling as anything Burgess has written. First published in 1978, its thoughts and ideas still hold very true today.

The author
“This constantly astonishing writer...has such great gifts and writes with so much wit and energy,” Robertson Davies

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was the author of a Earthly Powers, the Malayan Trilogy, A Clockwork Orange and many other much-loved novels. He was a truly multifaceted artist, producing novels, orchestral music, film scripts, criticism, poetry and translations.

Details

• ISBN 9781907616006
• Publication date: 7th October 2010
• Format: B format paperback
• Pages: 256
• RRP: £8.99

Rights information

• UK and Commonwealth book, World E-book and audio