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A Clockwork Orange Reissue Edition
Contributor(s): Burgess, Anthony

ISBN: 0002642097 ISBN-13: 9780393312836
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

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Published: June 1995
* Out of Print *

Annotation: Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not previously published in this country, with a new introduction by the author.

Additional Information

Library of Congress Subjects:
- 01
- 04

BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

Age Level: 0.50

Grade Level: 0.43

Guided Reading: 0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
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."

Contributor Bio(s): Burgess, Anthony: - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the "100 best novels" of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.

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