Burgess Foundation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Christmas, 1959. Anthony Burgess receives a copy of Richard Ellmann's biography of James Joyce from his first wife Lynne. Burgess was then called John Burgess Wilson. He went on to declare Ellman's book "the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century". https://t.co/3WX7gHvHBG

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Squeezing this in at the end of #IWD2023. Anthony Burgess reviews The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, writing then as Victoria Lucas. This 1963 review was one of Burgess’s very first reviews for the Observer newspaper. https://t.co/JWS4h2rmPA

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Let's have a new blog post. For our Anthony Burgess and the Theatre series, we reveal all about Burges's first original stage play The Eve of Saint Venus. Top tip: never marry a statue by mistake. https://t.co/T58t6Jx9ff https://t.co/rnh9PWvg7f

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A new addition to our short blog series Anthony Burgess and the Theatre: Burgess's new translation of Edmond de Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Have a read, dahlings! 🎭 https://t.co/iI9tf9Yhcv https://t.co/6X6LT2IkUw

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@miles_leeson @BacklistedPod @Balls_to_Monty @i_am_mill_i_am @johnmitchinson You can also see our episode of Ninety-Nine Novels, with the wonderful Avril Horner talking about The Bell by Iris Murdoch! https://t.co/PvfWdWPLy2

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Nicholas Graham also talks about his own book, The Judas Case. Retired spymaster Solomon Eliades looks into the death of Yehuda of Kerioth, better known a Judas Iscariot. Here's your link for @ApplePodcasts: https://t.co/W3WdGSp0Z5

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Beethoven biographer Laura Tunbridge gives a talk about the composer's work, the myths that surround his life, and the inspiration that Burgess took from the old Ludwig Van. 🔊 https://t.co/ujX69mFDg7

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Here's another shortlistee for the #ObserverBurgess Prize. Rachel Walker reviewed Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You? Here's an extract from her piece. We hope you're emotionally invested in watching our winners announcement this Friday, 3pm GMT on our YouTube channel. https://t.co/kTtI5gSgKQ

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May 2023 will see a new Penguin edition of Anthony Burgess's 1962 dystopian novel The Wanting Seed. originally published the same year as A Clockwork Orange. Here are some of the previous cover designs. https://t.co/stpXOnOJPb

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A great piece in @guardianfilm by Matthew Reisz about his filmmaker father Karel Reisz, director of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Have a read: https://t.co/I9nHTRYKUY Listen to our #99Novels episode about the Alan Sillitoe original: https://t.co/Wxxx2QMTMT https://t.co/Qnf0npEP5K