
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess(Author)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 24. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-393-31283-6 (ISBN)
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Description
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."
Reviews / Votes
"A brilliant novel... a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds." -- New York Times "Looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel." -- Time "I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language as Mr. Burgess has done here - the fact that this is also a very funny book may pass unnoticed." -- William S. Burroughs "A terrifying and marvelous book." -- Roald DahlMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
191 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-31283-6 (9780393312836)
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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the "100 best novels" of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.