A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess.
Filmed in 1971 by Stanley Kubrick.
First published 1962.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company.
Paperback.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0393341763
ISBN-13: 978-0393341768
Description:
One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All
Time.
“A brilliant novel.… [A] savage satire on the
distortions of the single and collective minds.” – New York Times.
ISBN-13: 978-0393341768
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.”