Timeline

* 1917 - Anthony Burgess was born, real name John Burgess Wilson. His father was a piano player.
* 1918 - Burgess's mother died of the Spanish flu. Burgess believed his father resented him for surviving.
* 1923-1928 - Anthony Burgess is bullied by gangs of schoolboys in school, which Burgess believes was because he was "well-dressed".
* 1938 - Anthony Burgess's father passed away.
* 1939 - Anthony Burgess "excitedly" read Finnegans Wake. His fiancee Lynne Burgess found it a waste of money, but did find it amusing that his name is almost in the book as "J.B.W. Ashburner".
* 1942 - Burgess's wife is beaten and raped, serving as an inspiration for the novel.
* 1940 - Anthony Burgess graduated from Manchester University, having written his masters' thesis on Doctor Faustus.
* 1945 - In a London pub, Burgess hears an 80-year-old drunk call someone "as queer as a clockwork orange".
* 1954-1959 - Burgess was in Malaya.
* 1956 - Burgess's first novel was published when he was 39 years old.
* 1959 - Burgess was forced to quit his job as a teacher in Borneo, with doctors citing the reason being a fatal brain tumor. No such brain tumor existed.
* 1960 - Burgess wrote four novels in anticipation of his death, wanting to leave his wife with some money.
* 1961 - Burgess wrote *A Clockwork Orange*.
* 1962 - *A Clockwork Orange* was originally published.
	+ Two editions are published - one for UK audiences, one for American audiences - due to American authors not wanting to tell a story that "sold out" on radicalism by the end.
	+ Burgess sells the film rights for $500 shortly after the book is published. *The Rolling Stones* express interest.
* 1963 - Anthony Burgess cheated on his first wife Lynne Burgess with Liana Macellari.
* 1964 - Burgess considered creating a film adaptation, but British censors render this improbable.
* 1966 - Anthony Burgess published an abridged version of Finnegans Wake.
* 1967 - Roland Barthes published The Death of the Author.
* 1968 -
	+ Anthony Burgess married Liana Macellari after the death of Lynne Burgess due to cyrrhosis of the liver.
	+ Kubrick released *2001: A Space Odyssey*, which has some intertextuality with Cogito Ergo Sum.
* 1971 - The film adaptation of *A Clockwork Orange* helmed by Stanley Kubrick premiered.
* 1973 -
	+ The film and book are blamed for a murder committed by Richard Palmer.
	+ Burgess makes a television program based around *Finnegans Wake*.
* 1982 - Burgess constructed another language the film *La Guerre du Feu.*
* 1993 - Anthony Burgess died of lung cancer.
* 2000 - *A Clockwork Orange* (film version) was rereleased, finally eclipsing British censors.
* 2001 - Time period of Kubrick's famous film *2001: A Space Odyssey*, referenced in the film adaptation of *A Clockwork Orange*.
* 2004 - Proposed time period of Burgess's theatrical adaptation of *A Clockwork Orange*.
* 2007 - Liana Burgess died.

## References

1. ↑ Lewis, 2002, p. 67
2. ↑ Lewis, 2002, p. 64
3. ↑ Lewis, 2002, pp. 53-54
4. ↑ Lewis, 2002, pp. 70-71
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Biswell, 2023, https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/a-shorter-finnegans-wake-editing-an-epic/
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Burgess, 1972, https://www.newspapers.com/image/385523716/
7. ↑ Lewis, 2002, pp. 223–224.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `obit1`
9. ↑ Williams, 2002, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/nov/10/biography.anthonyburgess
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 AFI Catalog, https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/54041
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 The Telegraph, 2007, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1571513/Liana-Burgess.html

*To see the full list of references for this entire project (and not this specific page), see Works Cited.*