An edition of A Clockwork Orange (1962)

A Clockwork Orange

First Revised Edition, thirty-sixth printing
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An edition of A Clockwork Orange (1962)

A Clockwork Orange

First Revised Edition, thirty-sixth printing
  • 4.04 ·
  • 45 Ratings
  • 674 Want to read
  • 16 Currently reading
  • 85 Have read

This classic novel of our time, the book that spawned the unforgettable Stanley Kubrick film, has never before appeared in its entirety in America. The original U.S. edition— and the movie—lacked the ending Anthony Burgess intended for it. Now, at last, American readers can read the version the rest of the world has always known.

It's all here then. Alex and his three "droogs": Pete, Georgie and Dim ("Dim being really dim"). ... "Ultraviolence" set to the strains of Beethoven's Ninth.... The cruelty ...the capture ...the "treatment'!.. the strange and beautiful redemption. And the ending you never imagined.
--back cover

Publish Date
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
219

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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
1972-01, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - Seventh printing
Cover of: A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
1964, Pan Books
paperback in English
Cover of: A Clockwork Orange
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

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1963

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
219p.
Number of pages
219

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL49650202M
Internet Archive
clockworkorange0000burg_e2u8
ISBN 10
0345354435
ISBN 13
9780345354433
Goodreads
56167829

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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