The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century
A Composite List and Ranking
by Brian Kunde
 
INTRODUCTION
SOURCE LISTS
COMPOSITE LIST
RANKING SYSTEM
COLUMN KEY
REVIEWS
LINKS

Reviews.

<- Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993.
         Real name: John Burgess Wilson. English novelist, critic, journalist and composer born in Manchester, Lancashire. An educator in Malaya and Brunei before becoming a full-time writer, he later resided in various European and American locales.
  • <- A Clockwork Orange. 1962.
             Dystopian science fiction novel of the near future concerning Alex, a violent young criminal who is "cured" by aversion therapy that essentially robs him of free will. Early American editions dropped the final chapter of the English version, resulting in a darker ending. In this form the story was adapted to film by Stanley Kubrick in 1971.

Posted Jul. 8, 2005, and last updated Mar. 27, 2013.
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