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An edition of A Clockwork Orange (1962)

A Clockwork Orange

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  • 4.04 ·
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Fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends start an evening's mayhem by hitting an old man, tearing up his books and stripping him of money and clothes.

Or rather Alex and his three droogs tolchock an old veck, razrez his books, pull off his outer platties and take a malenky bit of cutter.

For Alex's confessions are written in 'nadsat' - the teenage argot of a not-too-distant future.

Because of his delinquent excesses, Alex is jailed and made subject to 'Ludovico's Technique,' a chilling experiment in Reclamation Treatment...

Horror farce? Social prophecy? Penetrating study of human choice between good and evil? A Clockwork Orange is all three, dazzling proof of Anthony Burgess's vast talents.

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
149

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1990-06, Ballantine Books
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1964, Pan Books
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1963, W. W. Norton & Company
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A Clockwork Orange
1963, W.W. Norton and Co.
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Published in

Hammondsworth, Middlesex, England

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
1962

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6052.U638 C5 1972

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
149p.
Number of pages
149

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL9300792M
Internet Archive
clockworkorange0000burg_m1r9
ISBN 10
0140032193
ISBN 13
9780140032192
Library Thing
1473
Goodreads
60854734

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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