Record ID:
35660867 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 78095525
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19170225
  • Manchester, England
Death:
  • 19931122
  • London, England
Occupations:
  • Novelist Linguist Composer Critic
Used for:
  • Wilson, John Burgess, 1917-1993
  • Wilson, John Anthony Burgess, 1917-1993
  • バージエスアンソニー, 1917-1993
  • Kell, Joseph, 1917-1993
  • Burgess, Anthony, 1917-
Notes:
  • Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
  • Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
  • Time for a tiger, 1956.
  • Inside Mr. Enderby, 1963 t.p. (Joseph Kell)
  • Inside Mr. Enderby, 1984: t.p.(Anthony Burgess)
  • Byrne, 1995: t.p. (Anthony Burgess) front flap (d. 1993) back flap (b. 1917 in Manchester; ed. at Xaverian Coll., Manchester; doctorate, Manchester Univ.; served in army 1940-56; colonial education officer in Malaya and Borneo 1954-60; once visiting fellow, Princeton, and distinguished prof., CCNY)
  • Wikipedia, Apr. 26, 2013 (Anthony Burgess; John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL; born 25 February 1917 in Manchester; died 22 November 1993 in London; English writer, novelist, critic, composer, etc.; one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, the dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best known novel. In 1971 it was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book He was a longtime literary critic for The Observer and The Guardian and an accomplished musician and linguist. He composed over 250 musical works, including a first symphony around age 18, wrote a number of libretti, and translated, among other works, Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus the King and Carmen. He also wrote under the pseudonym Joseph Kell)
Local system number:
  • 000000664803
  • abv00950354
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda OCoLC DLC VJTL