New Releases by Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess'' epic work revolves around a writer, Kenneth Marchal Toomey, and the man he is linked to through family ties, Carlo Campanati, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope. Toomey, now in his 80s recalls the past.

A fictionalized historic account recalling the story of Jesus from his life to his death.

An English businessman returns from the Orient to find his country infested with greed, boredom, and corruption

Himself a well know writer, Burgess traces Hemingway''s life through the world wars, Paris of the 1920s, the Spanish Civil War, and the last years in Cuba. He describes both the compulsive super-masculine braggart and the sensitive literary artist. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A brilliantly funny spy novel from the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.

"Burgessian" Rome. Like the locations of many of his novels, Rome here takes on a texture that can only exist in Burgess. The plot concerns Mr. John Beard, a hack writer having a hell of a time (so to speak) in the Eternal City. Full of Nabokovian autoparody (a "better" writer visits Mr. Beard and pounds away at some of Burgess''s own aesthetics) and some fairly relentless lascivity, "Beard''s Roman Women" will be appreciated most by the Burgess-fanatics. --A Customer at Amazon.com.

The tragedy of Oedipus, who unknowingly slays his father and marries his mother, is one of the mythical cornerstones of Western civilization. Nicholas Rudall''s new translation remains true to Sophocles original text while fashioning a language of grace and power, with contemporary players and theatergoers in mind.

In this magnificent portrait if Shakespeare''s world, the life of England''s greatest playwright is recreated by one of the great novelists of our day.

Enderby, now called (after his mother) Hogg, is presented in this sequel as a barman in a big London Hotel. Unexpectedly the poetic gift returns. Moreover, Hogg seems to be involved in the assassination of a famous pop-singer, and this forces him to flee, resuming - since it is in his passport - his old identity. He discovers, on a flight to Tangier, that his betrayer Rawcliffe (who stole the plot of a narrative poem and turned it into a horror film) seems to be the patron of beach-cafe in that exotic resort. If Enderby is to put away for mudering a pop-singer, he might as well murder Rawcliffe also.

Commentary on Joyce for the average reader.

Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.