An edition of A Clockwork Orange (1962)

A Clockwork Orange

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An edition of A Clockwork Orange (1962)

A Clockwork Orange

  • 4.04 ·
  • 45 Ratings
  • 677 Want to read
  • 16 Currently reading
  • 85 Have read

A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title.

In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where 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".
(back cover)

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시계태엽오렌지: A Clockwork Orange
2022, Minŭmsa, Min Eumsa
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La naranja mecanica
2022-06, Minotauro
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A Clockwork Orange
2000, Penguin Classics
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A Clockwork Orange
2000, Penguin Classics
paperback in English - reprint 1
Cover of: A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
/1993, Paperview U.K. Ltd.
hardcover in English - promotional edition
Cover of: A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
1990-06, Ballantine Books
paperback in English - First Revised Edition, thirty-sixth printing
Cover of: A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
1989, W. W. Norton & Company
Paperback in English
Cover of: A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
1972-01, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Seventh printing
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A Clockwork Orange
1964, Pan Books
paperback in English
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A Clockwork Orange
1963, W.W. Norton and Co.
hardcover in English - Book Club Edition
Cover of: A clockwork orange
A clockwork orange
1963, W. W. Norton & Company
paperback in English - [1st American ed.]

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New York, USA

Edition Notes

Norton Paperback Fiction

Copyright Date
1986

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.U638C5 1987

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24618946M
ISBN 10
0393312836
ISBN 13
9780393312836
LCCN
89023843
Goodreads
56167874

Work Description

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. According to Burgess, it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks.

In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The original manuscript of the book has been kept at McMaster University's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since the institution purchased the documents in 1971. It is considered one of the most influential dystopian books.



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A Clockwork Orange and Honey for the Bears
A Clockwork Orange / The Wanting Seed

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