lent in the arts. He highly
             enjoyed drawing, writing poems, and essays but was always searching for the one
             medium that he would succeed at. Burgess found music to be a art form he
             enjoyed the most and studied it up to college were he was forced to study English
             because he had a lack of qualifications. Although a little unappreciative at first
             Burgess soon found a new love in English and obtained a BA degree with honors
             in 1940 from Manchester University. He Jumped from job to job teaching
             English soon after, always trying to find happiness. Burgess worked in many
             diverse areas ranging from a English master in a grammar school near oxford to
             an education officer for the colonial office an Malaysia. Burgess used his free-
             time to write, but didn't expect too much to come from it because of a doubt in his
             talent. It was in Malaysia where he had his first novels, The Malaysian Trilogy
             published. Burgess soon returned home, however, in 1959 he was diagnosed with
             a brain tumor and was told he only had a year to live. At this point Burgess began
             to write novels to support his widow-to-be wife. This w
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