An edition of A Clockwork Orange (1962)

A Clockwork Orange

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An edition of A Clockwork Orange (1962)

A Clockwork Orange

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In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”

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2022-06, Minotauro
Paperback in Spanish
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시계태엽오렌지: A Clockwork Orange
2022, Minŭmsa, Min Eumsa
Paperback in Korean
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A Clockwork Orange
May 21, 2019, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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A Clockwork Orange
2000, Penguin Classics
paperback in English - reprint 1
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A Clockwork Orange
2000, Penguin Classics
paperback in English - reprint 1
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A Clockwork Orange
/1993, Paperview U.K. Ltd.
hardcover in English - promotional edition
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A Clockwork Orange
1990-06, Ballantine Books
paperback in English - First Revised Edition, thirty-sixth printing
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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 & Company
paperback in English - [1st American ed.]
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A Clockwork Orange
1963, W.W. Norton and Co.
hardcover in English - Book Club Edition

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Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26876459M
ISBN 10
0393341763
ISBN 13
9780393341768
OCLC/WorldCat
1053995581

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OL261794W

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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.



Also contained in:

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

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