The End of the World News: An Entertainment

by Anthony Burgess

Book Overview

In this book are 3 fascinating stories bound together. YOu have the novelized life of Sigmund Freud. You have a Broadway musical about the visit of Leon Trotsky to NY in 1917, and you have the cursing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140067469
• ISBN13: 9780140067460
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

fantastic

I read this book over 10 years ago and to this day, it's still one of my all-time favourite reads...it's 3 stories in one that converge into a new creation story...absolutely ingenius...read it!

an overlooked classic by a master

Anthony Burgess has written so many great novels. He is of course most famous for A Clockwork Orange, and that one sotry has overshadowed much of his other terrific work.This book has three different storylines, including Trotsky and space travel, and its never clear as you read through the chapters how they are related, but the plotlines are captivating. And at the end, he does a masterful job of tying it all together. Simply fascinating.It will be hard to find this book, but if you do, definitely buy it.

Brilliant and Alive

If you enjoyed "A Clockwork Orange" as a literary achievement and for its apocalyptic/dystopic vision, then this is a book for you. Look for it in used-book stores. I'm sure there were a few re-prints of it, so don't give up.

Another Stunning Work By Mr. Burgess

I was lucky enough to stumble upon this book in a used book store during a class field trip. Familiar or not with Anthony Burgess, this book follows in the string of greatness. The three individual stories complement each other in many interesting ways, with a biography, a musical, and life in the future. The development of the book is absolutely amazing.

More magic from the author of Clockwork Orange

Sigmund Freud discovers the psyche in Vienna, Leon Trotsky discovers the worker's paradise in New York City and America waits for a comet to snuff out all life. Three very different tales spin around and through each other in another masterpiece by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Like most Burgess, this is a vastly entertaining book, but you can't just stand back and admire the architecture of this tale. Human characters dealing with super-human problems draw you in to this discussion of the uses of power and the purpose of life. At first, the interwoven stories jar. You hurry to get back to the interrupted story. What happened next? To whom? But each story blooms, each story comments nimbly on the others and takes its own place in a masterwork by a masterwriter.