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by Anthony Burgess

The Best in English Since 1939 according Mr Anthony Burgess

1939

Party Going, Henry Green

After Many a Summer, Aldous Huxley

Finnegans Wake, James Joyce

At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O'Brien

1940

The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Strangers and Brothers (to 1970), C.P. Snow

1941

The Aerodrome, Rex Warner

1944

The Horse's Mouth, Joyce Cary

The Razor's Edge, Somerset Maugham

1945

Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

1946

Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake

1947

The Victim, Saul Bellow

Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry

1948

The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene

Ape and Essence, Aldous Huxley

The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer

No Highway, Nevil Shute

1949

The Heat of the Day, Elizabeth Bowen

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

The Body, William Sansom

1950

Scenes from Provincial Life, William Cooper

The Disenchanted, Budd Schulberg

1951

A Dance to the Music of Time (to 1975), Anthony Powell

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (to 1969), Henry Williamson

The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk

1952

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

The Groves of Academe, Mary McCarthy

Wise Blood, Flannery O'Connor

Sword of Honour (to 1961), Evelyn Waugh

1953

The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler

1954

Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis

1957

Room at the Top, John Braine

The Alexandria Quartet (to 1960), Lawrence Durrell

The London Novels (to 1960), Colin MacInnes

The Assistant, Bernard Malamud

1958

The Bell, Iris Murdoch

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe

The Once and Future King, T.H. White

1959

The Mansion, William Faulkner

Goldfinger, Ian Fleming

1960

Facial Justice, L.P. Hartley

The Balkans Trilogy (to 1965), Olivia Manning

1961

The Mighty and Their Fall, Ivy Compton-Burnett

Catch 22, Joseph Heller

The Fox in the Attic, Richard Hughes

Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White

The Old Men at the Zoo, Angus Wilson

1962

Another Country, James Baldwin

An Error of Judgment, Pamela Hansford Johnson

Island, Aldous Huxley

The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing

Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov

1963

The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark

1964

The Spire, William Golding

Heartland, Wilson Harris

A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood

The Defence, Vladimir Nabokov

Late Call, Angus Wilson

1965

The Lockwood Concern, John O'Hara

The Mandelbaum Gate, Muriel Spark

1966

A Man of the People, Chinua Achebe

The Anti-Death League, Kingsley Amis

Giles Goat-Boy, John Barth

The Late Bourgeois World, Nadine Gordimer

The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy

1967

The Vendor of Sweets, R.K. Narayan

1968

The Image Men, J.B. Priestley

Cocksure, Mordecai Richler

Pavane, Keith Roberts

1969

The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles

Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth

1970

Bomber, Len Deighton

1973

Sweet Dreams, Michael Frayn

Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

1975

Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow

The History Man, Malcolm Bradbury

1976

The Doctor's Wife, Brian Moore

Falstaff, Robert Nye

1977

How to Save Your Own Life, Erica Jong

Farewell Companions, James Plunkett

Staying On, Paul Scott

1978

The Coup, John Updike

1979

The Unlimited Dream Company, J.G. Ballard

Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud

A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul

Sophie's Choice, William Stryon

1980

Life in the West, Brian Aldiss

Riddley Walker, Russell Hoban

How Far Can You Go?, David Lodge

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

1981

Lanark, Alasdair Gray

Darconville's Cat, Alexander Theroux

The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux

Creation, Gore Vidal

1982

The Rebel Angels, Robertson Davies

1983

Ancient Evenings, Norman Mailer

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Intro

1_(La vita, l'Italia e Marlowe)

2_(Arancia meccanica)

3(La terapia Ludovico)

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