A Dead Man in Deptford
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099541394
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $29.99

A Dead Man in Deptford

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Murder mystery based on the infamous life and death of Christopher Marlowe.

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'
Irish Times

A Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.
  • Published: 1 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099541394
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing.

He achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the leading novelists of his day, and one of the most versitile. His writings include criticism, scripts and translations, and a Broadway musical, and he composed three symphonies which have been publicly performed in the USA. His books have been published all over the world and include A Clockwork Orange, The Clockwork Testament, Inside Mr Enderby, Enderby's Dark Lady, Earthly Powers, Abba Abba and The End of the World News.

Anthony Burgess died in 1993.

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Also by Anthony Burgess

Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins
The Wanting Seed
M/F
Earthly Powers
The Complete Enderby
Little Wilson and Big God
You've Had Your Time
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Praise for A Dead Man in Deptford

Legendary intoxication with language and wordplay is very much in evidence as he (Burgess) evokes the raw, freewheeling spirit of the Elizabethan age

The New York Times

The story is intensely true to the surfaces and smells of Elizabethan London, and also Burgess's own final meditation on his great themes, the sexual and artistic impulses, and their end in death. A masterpiece.

The Observer

If you want a Marlowe that breathes and an England that attacks the senses then you will find both in Anthony Burgess's astonishing final novel, A Dead Man in Deptford.

The Times

Burgess's novel moves with relish through fights, blasphemy and buggery to high talk of mathematics and necromancy in Raleigh's alternative think-tank, all written in well-judged pastiche.

The Independent

A fast, funny, flawless recreation

The Week, Hilary Mantel
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