#1985 ANTHONY BURGESS QUOTES FULL#
His bathtub, which serves as a filing cabinet, is almost full of the mingled paper and food scraps that represent his efforts. Enderby composes his poetry whilst seated on the toilet. Enderby, a lapsed Catholic in his mid-40's, lives alone in Brighton as a 'professional' poet – his income being interest from investments left to him by his stepmother. The story opens on a note of pure fantasy, showing schoolchildren from the future taking a field trip through time to see the dyspeptic poet Francis Xavier Enderby while he is asleep.
#1985 ANTHONY BURGESS QUOTES SERIES#
The series began in 1963 with the publication of this book, and concluded in 1984 with Enderby's Dark Lady, or No End to Enderby (after a ten year break following the publication of the third novel in the series, The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End). The book was first published in 1963 in London by William Heinemann under the pseudonym Joseph Kell.
Inside Mr Enderby is a the first volume in the four-book Enderby series of comic novels by the British author Anthony Burgess. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction. As each pursues his career-one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile-their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power-Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
In *Earthly Powers* Burgess created his masterpiece. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. Anthony Burgess, author of *A Clockwork Orange,* is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language.
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