Tremor of Intent

✍ Scribed by BURGESS, Anthony

• Book ID: 108911619
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780393346398

✦ Synopsis

Overview: John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer, author, poet, playwright, composor, linguist, translator, and critic. From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best known novel. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers, regarded by most critics as his greatest novel. He wrote librettos and screenplays. He worked as a literary critic and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King and the opera Carmen, among others. In 2008, The Times placed Burgess number seventeen on their list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.”