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| The Complete Enderby (Vintage classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 219635
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0099442590
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780099442592
ASIN: 0099442590
Publication Date: December 5, 2002
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 Better than Enderby's poetry August 12, 2008
4 stars for Inside Enderby and Enderby Outside, less for Enderby's Dark Lady. The Clockwork Testament vacillates somewhere in the middle. A kind of twin to Earthly Powers, what with the introverted author-heroes, the foreign climes, the petty jealousies and competitions, the continual humiliation by objects of desire, ham-fisted social advances and public hostility to work of questionable value. But this is weaker in a lot of ways. At least part of this is due to reading all four books as one but this is also let down by the incessance of Burgess' references to 'blacks' and 'browns' throughout The Clockwork Testament. You can never quite tell whether it is real animosity peeking through a fictional facade or some mix of provocation and social commentary on the dangers of communal classification. Either way, the narrative suffers. The same themes surface in Earthly Powers but dangle much more ambiguously, avoiding the monotonous obnoxiousness that Enderby/Burgess displays here. That said, the linguistic inventiveness amuses and intrigues as much as ever (especially if you like Shakespeare), even if it too often seems tired.
 Verbal Dexterity In Purple Prose June 15, 2003
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
For those of us who wished to follow the adventures of that bitter old cynic and unabashed poet, Francis Xavier Enderby, we can now indulge in the completed story of his life.Burgess was a marvellous writer with a playful love of language that is readily apparent in the Enderby novels. Although the story is somewhat laboured towards the final installment, there is a true joy to be found in the cathartic writing of the first two. The near-scholarly tone of the storytelling does not diminish the pleasure to be gained from the slow and careful reading necessary for enjoyment at its fullest.
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