The Complete Enderby (Vintage Classics)

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing. A prolific and respected author, Burgess died in 1993.

Title: The Complete Enderby (Vintage Classics)

Author: Anthony Burgess

ISBN: 9780099541431

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Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Publication Date: 2012-02-02

Number of Pages: 672

Weight: 0.4537 kg

The Enderby series are even finer comedies than those by Evelyn Waugh -- Gore Vidal
Ferociously funny and wildly verbally inventive * The Times *
Burgess is at his most inventive in these books, especially when he gives us the full text of Enderby's songs and sonnets (many of which are laughably bad). Poetry, Burgess seems to conclude, is rather like shitting: it's really about purging oneself of dead matter -- Andrew Biswell * Observer *
Burgess is the great postmodern storehouse of British writing-an important experimentalist; an encyclopaedic amasser, but also a maker of form; a playful comic, with a dark gloom -- Malcolm Bradbury
No less an authority than Harold Bloom rates the Enderby books among the great comic fictions of our time. Certainly Anthony Burgess, that dizzying polymath and flamboyant novelist, never created a more engaging hero than this hapless poet... All in all, these four books, though diverse in tone and character, strikingly exhibit the narrative gusto and linguistic sprezzatura of Anthony Burgess at his best * Washington Post *