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John Barth, Professor Emeritus in the Johnsoil painting , , Hopkins Writing Seminars, is the author of twelve works of fiction -- The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lostoil paintings in the Funhouse, Chimera china oil painting(winner of the 1973 National Book Award), LETTERS, Sabbatical, The Tidewater Tales (also available in paperback from Johns Hopkins), The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera, and On with the Story -- as well as another collection of essays, Further Fridays. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore.Back Cover:
Anthony Burgess Invites You to Consider: What Are the Best Novels of Our Time?
In this provocative and engaging book,Buy Laptop BatteryFind Laptop BatteriesLow Cost Laptop Battery internationally celebrated novelist and critic Anthony Burgess offers his list of the best 99 novels published in English since 1939 on both sides of the Atlantic and in the rest of the English-speaking world. Looking back over the past forty-five years -- a period that encompasses the start of a world war and ends with the nonfulfillment of Orwell's nightmare -- Burgess considers: How far have our novels reflected the period accurately? How far have they opened our eyes to the future? How much entertainment have they given? For each novelist and novel on his list -- and the range is wide, catholic, and full of surprises Laptop BatteryLaptop Batteries-- Anthony Burgess provides a cogent and impassioned argument. "In my time," he writes in his introduction, "I have read a lot of novels in the way of duty; I have read a great number for pleasure as well. I am, I think, qualified to compile a list like the one that awaits you in the pages inside. The 99 novels I have chosen, I have chosen with some, though not with total, confidence. I have concentrated on works which have brought something new -- in technique or view of the world -- to the form. . ." Creating a storm of controversy both Find Laptop BatteriesLow Cost Laptop Batteryhere and in England for what has been included (Ian Flemming's Goldfinger) as well as neglected (Nabokov's Lolita, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom; there is nothing by Cheever, Le Carre, Capote, or Vonnegut), 99 Novels has been praised by The Washington Post as "a book that almost anyone interested in modern fiction will want to look at." Anthony Burgess is perhaps best known in Laptop BatteryLaptop BatteriesBuy Laptop Batterythis country as the author of A Clockwork Orange. He is the author of twenty-six novels, eleven books of literary criticism, two children's books, and five translations. Burgess is also a notable composer.Retrieved from "http://starcraft2wiki.net/sc2wiki/index.php?titleView the Original article
