A Clockwork Orange
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  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951446
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

A Clockwork Orange

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13 Jan 2014
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13 May 2011
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1 Jul 2000
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6 Mar 2014
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4 Aug 2011
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6 May 2010
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6 Sep 2012
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18 Sep 2012
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The daring and electrifying book that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made

'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'

In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?

Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.
  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951446
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He served in the army from 1940 to 1954 before becoming a colonial education officer. It was while he held this post that doctors told him he would die, and he decided to try to live by writing.

He achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the leading novelists of his day, and one of the most versitile. His writings include criticism, scripts and translations, and a Broadway musical, and he composed three symphonies which have been publicly performed in the USA. His books have been published all over the world and include A Clockwork Orange, The Clockwork Testament, Inside Mr Enderby, Enderby's Dark Lady, Earthly Powers, Abba Abba and The End of the World News.

Anthony Burgess died in 1993.

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Praise for A Clockwork Orange

A gruesomely witty cautionary tale

Time

Every generation should discover this book

Time Out

Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language

Daily Telegraph

I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language...a very funny book

William S. Burroughs

One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation

The Times
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