WRITER

Anthony Burgess

1917 - 1993

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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was a British writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Burgess has received more than 2,302,120 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Anthony Burgess is the 506th most popular writer (down from 482nd in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 374th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Writer.

Anthony Burgess is most famous for his novel, A Clockwork Orange.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 63

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Nothing like the sun
1964
The Right to an Answer
1960
Inside Mr. Enderby
1963
The doctor is sick
1960
A Clockwork Orange
Fiction / Classics
<p>A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.</p> A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has since become a classic of modern literature and the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s once-banned film, whose recent reissue has brought this revolutionary tale on modern civilization to an even wider audience. Andrew Biswell, PhD, director of the International Burgess Foundation, has taken a close look at the three varying published editions alongside the original typescript to recreate the novel as Anthony Burgess envisioned it. We publish this landmark edition with its original British cover and six of Burgess’s own illustrations.
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Honey for the Bears
1963

Page views of Anthony Burgesses by language

Over the past year Anthony Burgess has had the most page views in the with 255,064 views, followed by Russian (62,195), and Spanish (28,134). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (217.24%), Ido (92.62%), and Bulgarian (64.88%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anthony Burgess ranks 506 out of 7,302. Before him are Henri Barbusse, Gérard de Nerval, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Thomas Paine, Baldassare Castiglione, and Philip Larkin. After him are Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anaïs Nin, Robert A. Heinlein, Statius, Alfred Jarry, and Camille Flammarion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Anthony Burgess ranks 13. Before him are Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Eric Hobsbawm, Frederica of Hanover, I. M. Pei, and Ferdinand Marcos. After him are Ernest Borgnine, Christian de Duve, Sidney Sheldon, Joan Clarke, Kenan Evren, and James Rainwater. Among people deceased in 1993, Anthony Burgess ranks 13. Before him are Erich Hartmann, William Golding, Frank Zappa, James Hunt, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, and Turgut Özal. After him are Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, André the Giant, Bobby Moore, Hans Jonas, Albert Sabin, and Inge Lehmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Burgess ranks 360 out of 8,785. Before him are Emma Thompson (1959), Richard Wright (1943), Christopher Nolan (1970), Colin Firth (1960), Benny Hill (1924), and Philip Larkin (1922). After him are Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Joseph Merrick (1862), Theresa May (1956), Arthur Balfour (1848), Henry Moore (1898), and Francis William Aston (1877).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anthony Burgess ranks 41. Before him are John Galsworthy (1867), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), G. K. Chesterton (1874), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Thomas Paine (1737), and Philip Larkin (1922). After him are Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Harold Pinter (1930), Robert Burns (1759), George Eliot (1819), A. A. Milne (1882), and Enid Blyton (1897).

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