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One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time

“A brilliant novel.… [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.”—New York Times

In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central...

Dreamlike, macabre, and richly atmospheric, Mervyn Peake's extraordinary novel Titus Groan—first in the Gormenghast Trilogy—is one of the most astonishing works of gothic and literary fantasy in modern fiction.

As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to...

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En esta mirada sat rica y perturbadora sobre los j venes en plena rebeli n, Alex y sus amigos de quince a os emprenden una org a diab lica de robos, violaciones, torturas y asesinatos. Hasta que Alex es...

This volume is a major event in both the James Joyce and Anthony Burgess literary annals. It not any marks the first publication of Burgess's A Shorter Ulysses, which was only recently discovered in the Burgess archives, but also the first republication this century of Burgess's extraordinary...

The Napoleon which Burgess gives us is a comic tyrant, a conqueror with bad breath, an emperor whose noble hand - tucked ever in his tunic - comforts a case of common heartburn. The opening movements reveal him on his glorious Austrian campaign, a cuckolded Colossus penning ardent letters to a...

First published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of J. G. Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. This collection includes “The Garden of Time,” the inspiration for the 2024 Met Gala–fashion’s biggest night.

His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and...

A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.

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...

A sweeping bestselling novel of politics, war, philosophy, and adventure–in a restored edition, featuring never-before-published material from Gore Vidal’s original manuscript–Creation offers a captivating grand tour of the ancient world.

Cyrus Spitama, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster and lifelong...

One Hand Clapping is the story of Janet and Howard Shirley, living a dreary life in the dreary fictional northern city of Bradcaster. Howard works at the local garage and Janet works in the local supermarket, and they spend their evenings having dinner in front of the television. Their lives begin...