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The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993, author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) about?
"Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dining-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. It is a novel both extravagantly funny and grimly serious."
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
- Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993, author
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393315080
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (4,158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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