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The Kingdom of the Wicked Anthony Burgess publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1985 refered to by: Memoirs of Hadrian Marguerite Yourcenar full text search: the ledge - flash version* *	summary: An irreverent account of the early days of Christianity.
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ON ANTHONY BURGESS' BOOKSHELF GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Gerard Manley Hopkins: the Major Works Gerard Manley Hopkins, JOYCE Ulysses James Joyce, 1922 Finnegans Wake James Joyce, 1939 ORWELL Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell, 1949 SHAKESPEARE Hamlet William Shakespeare, 1602 King Richard II William Shakespeare, 1595 THE CHURCH On Free Choice of the Will Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine, 388-395	BOOKS BY ANTHONY BURGESS: A Clockwork Orange 1962 In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the state tries to reform him - but at what cost?	WHAT TO READ AFTER A CLOCKWORK ORANGE? DYSTOPIA: THE FUTURE AS NIGHTMARE Brave New World Aldous Huxley, 1932 Into the neatly programmed 'Brave New World' of test-tube babies and drug-controlled happiness, misfit Bernard Marx brings the innocent Savage. Huxley's vision of the future is also a chilling comment on the present. Possibility of an Island Michel Houellebecq, 2005 'Who among you deserves eternal life?' Houellebecq's novel, which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarotte, and between the near and far-distant future, is a thought provoking, sometimes shocking, and ultimately moving examination of the modern world, the trials of old age and the death of love. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, 1953 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood, 1985 MUSIC CAN BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH Kreutzer Sonata Leo N. Tolstoy, 1890 When Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder. American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis, 1991 In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything -including murder. TELL IT IN YOUR OWN WORDS The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger, 1951 A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. Blue Mondays Arnon Grunberg, 1994 A disenfranchised young slacker prowls the seamy and sleazy back alleys of Amsterdam's red-light district. Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle, 1993
ON ANTHONY BURGESS' BOOKSHELF THE CHURCH On Free Choice of the Will Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine, 388-395	Earthly Powers 1980 About a writer and the man to whom he is linked through family ties, an earthy Italian priest destined to become Pope.
	Inside Mr. Enderby 1963 The humorous escapades of Enderby - poet, social critic, comrade and Catholic.
ON ANTHONY BURGESS' BOOKSHELF THE FUTURE LOOKS BLEAK Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell, 1949	1985 1978 In an interview with himself, Burgess explores key aspects of Orwell's 1984.
	The End of the World News 1982 Three separate and apparently unrelated narratives, one concerning a future voyage into space, one based on the life of Trotsky and one on the life of Marx.
	The Kingdom of the Wicked 1985 An irreverent account of the early days of Christianity.
	The Pianoplayers 1986 Partly based on Burgess's childhood experiences - his father was a piano player in Manchester pubs.
	Nothing Like the Sun 1964 The story of Shakespeare's love life.
	Here Comes Everybody 1965 'An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader'
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