Writers from Manchester - Anthony Burgess, Carol Ann Duffy, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas de Quincey, Taylor Caldwell (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 57. Chapters: Anthony Burgess, Carol Ann Duffy, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Thomas De Quincey, Taylor Caldwell, William Harrison Ainsworth, Paul Johnson, Cliff Twemlow, Howard Jacobson, Gwyneth Jones, John Byrom, Cath Carroll, Sydney Grundy, Simcha Weinstein, Declan Donnellan, Martin Lings, Jeanette Winterson, Frank Kingdon-Ward, John Ash, Alice Rawsthorn, Simon Cooke, Gilbert Cannan, John Rodker, Isabella Banks, Stanley Houghton, Tim Parks, Toby Harnden, Francis French, Brian Farrell, Harold Brighouse, Doug Naylor, Gary Owen, Jack Rosenthal, Chris Emery, Lemn Sissay, Brian Callison, Sophie Hannah, Cathy Hopkins, Winifred Mary Letts, Trevor Miller, Louis Golding, William Arthur Dunkerley, Richard Evans, Richard James Horatio Gottheil, John Rowland Ashton, Andy Remic, Sarah Champion, Daran Little, Ted Lewis, Graham Robb, William Rathbone Greg, Bryan Appleyard, J. Redwood Anderson, Allan Monkhouse, Emily Poynton Weaver, Alfred Ollivant, Philip Mitchell, Susan Kay, Lawrence Atkinson, Nicholas Royle, Paul Chronnell, H. V. Kershaw, Greatrex Newman, Manchester School. Excerpt: John Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 - 22 November 1993) - who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess - was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works. It was adapted into a highly controversial 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He was a prominent critic, writing acclaimed studies of classic writers such as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway. In 2008, The Times placed Burgess number 17 on their list of "The 50...