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A Clockwork Orange

By Anthony Burgess

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
1986
ISBN
0393312836, 9780393312836
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
412 kB (421569 bytes)
Pages
109\109
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The only American edition of the cult classic novel.A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to "redeem" him—the novel asks, "At what cost?" 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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