Anthony Burgess

It was widely felt that her productivity (almost a novel a year) had the effect of lowering her valuation. Her quiet novels provoked some aggressive criticism, like that of Peter Kemp , or of Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess praised AC for doing something in this novel which she did in later ones as well: looking at the mess of contemporary life without flinching.Claire Harman points out surreal characters, the...

Once published, Wednesday, and Other Stories was reviewed by a member of the new generation, Anthony Burgess , as illuminating and startling.

LR always maintained she was uninterested in her reputation and would take no steps to assist it—though she did care that the record should be accurate, and to that end she wrote a lengthy article...

The first series was praised by critics but was less than successful in terms of sales. OMbegan to feel that she was neglected as a serious novelist, a view shared by some contemporary writers...

Notable amid a chorus of praise for the two trilogies which make up OM 's Fortunes of War (often from fellow writers) was Anthony Burgess . He admired the work's gallery of characters and places...

She enjoyed the fact that alphabetical order placed her next in the queue of award-winners to the tv comics Morecambe and Wise. Lord Weidenfeld , who had recently become her publisher, gave a large party...

Anthony Burgess wrote of this book in The ObserverThe sense of time, space, and wilderness is admirably, sometimes piercingly conveyed.

KR declined the invitation of the Royal Society of Literature to become a Companion of Literature, saying the companionship had been cheapened by its award to the journalistsIris Murdoch and Anthony Burgess .

Despite her own claim that she would not regard it as a compliment to be told she was in the mainstream of the contemporary novel, The Times placed her after her death in the...

Here Frederica, survivor of the Potter sisters in ASB 's first two novels, has become a narratologist. ASB set out to reverse here the things-not-imagery method of the novel's predecessor, and to make it a...