"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess

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Anthony Burgess was born on February 25th, 1917 in Manchester, England
He spoke eight languages, apart from English. Burgess was a composer of music since the age of sixteen years. He taught himself how to read music and how to play piano. He studied English and his long experiences as an "education officer" in Malaya made him move to process the "Malayan Trilogy" (1972) which contains the novels "Time for a Tiger" (1956), "The enemy in the blanket"(1958) and "Beds in the East"(1959). The inspiration for A Clockwork Orange came while during World War II, when his wife was assaulted while he fought. She died about a month after the incident from internal bleeding, along with their unborn child, who was killed during the assault. He compensated this by releasing his anger into A Clockwork Orange, in which a scene takes place that mirrors the traumatic incident
Anthony Burgess died of cancer at the age of seventy-six

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