Earthly Powers

Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers is a panoramic saga novel of the 20th century by Anthony Burgess. It begins with the “outrageously provocative” first sentence: “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.”
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL, who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was predominantly a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel.