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Can I read The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) on EtoBox?
The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) about?
The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world that overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world of spacelessness where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality ("It's Sapiens to be Homo"). This time of the near future is eventually transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without enemies.
Who reads The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 1962
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393315080
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Children'S, Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (4,158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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