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Inside Mr Enderby

By: Anthony Burgess
Narrated by: John Sessions
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Inside Mr. Enderby introduced to a captivated audience Burgess's dyspeptic poet, whose uniquely idiosyncratic, scatological brand of verse even won the genuine approval of T. S. Eliot.

In his first clash with the outside world, Enderby is extracted from his lavatorial sanctuary by the professional widow Vesta Bainbridge in a most peculiar romance.

©1963 Anthony Burgess (P)2014 Audible Studios
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If you liked A Confederacy of Dunces...

I really liked A Clockwork Orange and got a recommendation for the Enderby series of four novels. This is very different from A Clockwork Orange but excellent in a different way. This novel has been called "the most undervalued English novel of our era." It reminded me a lot of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" which I also loved. Interestingly both novels were written about the same time (early 60's) and it seems without either author knowing about the other.

The novels follow Enderby, an obsurd, yet interesting poet. I found this both funny and oddly touching. The novel is mostly about the character and the writing and not the story

The narration is good, but has a few rough bits.

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