The Wanting Seed

Anthony Burgess

first published 1962 Hamlyn Pub. Group, 1983 281 pages

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"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...

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Wanting Seed edition · 2023 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780241997376
La folle semence 131 paperback · 2001 · Serpent à plumes · 436 pages · 9782842612719
Wanting Seed edition · 1999 · Penguin Random House · 9780099783602
The Wanting Seed edition · 1996 · W. W. Norton & Company · 285 pages · 9780393315080
The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction) edition · 1996 · W. W. Norton & Company · 274 pages · 9780393285727
The wanting seed edition · 1985 · Arrow books
The wanting seed edition · 1983 · Hamlyn Pub. Group · 281 pages
The Wanting Seed hardcover · 1976 · W.W. Norton & Co. · 9780393008081
The wanting seed paperback · 1973 · Penguin · 217 pages
The Wanting Seed paperback · 1972 · Ballantine Books · 9780345026545
The Wanting Seed paperback · 1970 · Ballantine Books · 223 pages · 9780345020116
The wanting seed hardcover · 1962 · Heinemann · 285 pages

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