Anthony Burgess archive reveals vast body of previously unseen work
Gifted by the author's widow, the resource includes a great deal of music writing, as well as new literary gems
A greatly expanded slang lexicon for the delinquent droogs of the novel A Clockwork Orange has been unearthed in a vast archive of the work and life of Anthony Burgess held in Manchester, alongside the libretto and score of an unseen opera about Leon Trotsky, and the script for an unmade TV series about Attila the Hun.
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Sunday, 20 November, 2011
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