Burgess wrote this foreword to The Wanting Seed in 1982. The novel has recently appeared in Bulgarian and French. A new English edition has just been published in the Penguin Essentials collection.
We're hoping that The Worm and the Ring will come back in the Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess soon. If all goes well it will be the original version, before it was censored by the publisher.
Still hoping that The Worm and the Ring will see print again one day. It's the only publication of his in English I haven't got!
We're hoping that The Worm and the Ring will come back in the Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess soon. If all goes well it will be the original version, before it was censored by the publisher.