BURGESS, ANTHONY

Vintage Books 1994. 272 pp.Sider. Paperback OK condition John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (25 February 1917 - 22 November 1993) - who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess - was an English writer. From relatively modest beginnings in a Manchester Catholic family in the North of England, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century. A Dead Man in Deptford (1993) was written late in Anthony Burgess's life, and is the last of his novels to be published during his lifetime. It depicts the life and character of Christopher Marlowe, one of the greatest playwrights of the Elizabethan era. Starting in Marlowe's youth, Burgess paints a detailed picture of Elizabethan England. Marlowe's life as a homosexual may have had difficult consequences, but these were perhaps not as great as those of being a classical playwright and spy for Queen Elizabeth. Early in his spying career, Marlowe is instrumental in the discovery of the Babington Plot, but is sickened by the execution of the conspirators. His dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962.