The Wanting Seed
- ISBN-10
- 0393315088
- ISBN-13
- 9780393315080
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 285
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1963
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Anthony Burgess
Description
Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce.
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