'WHAT'S it going to be then, eh?'
An edition of A Clockwork Orange
(1962)
A Clockwork Orange
The Restored Edition
1st American ed. (1); The Restored Edition; 50th Anniversary Edition
by Anthony Burgess
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A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.
A Clockwork Orange is as brilliant, transgressive, and influential as when it was published fifty years ago. A nightmare vision of the future told in its own fantastically inventive lexicon, it has since become a classic of modern literature and the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s once-banned film, whose recent reissue has brought this revolutionary tale on modern civilization to an even wider audience. Andrew Biswell, PhD, director of the International Burgess Foundation, has taken a close look at the three varying published editions alongside the original typescript to recreate the novel as Anthony Burgess envisioned it. We publish this landmark edition with its original British cover and six of Burgess’s own illustrations.
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A Clockwork Orange: The Restored Edition
2012, W.W. Norton & Co.
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in English
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1990-06, Ballantine Books
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A Clockwork Orange
1972-01, Ballantine Books
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Edition Notes
Includes supplemental material: annotated pages from Anthony Burgess's 1961 typescript; The Clockwork condition (a chapter from a never-completed nonfiction book by Burgess on brainwashing;) epilogue: 'A malenky govoreet about the molodoy' by Anthony Burgess.
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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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- A Clockwork Orange - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation
- A Clockwork Orange (novel) - Wikipedia
- The 100 best novels: No 82 – A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
- The Shock of the New ‘A Clockwork Orange’ at 50
- A Clockwork Orange | Summary, Analysis, & Facts | Britannica.com
- thegreatestbooks.org/items/20
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