A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)
Oct 2012 · W. W. Norton & Company
4.4star
42 reviews
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224
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About this ebook
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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4.4
42 reviews
Joseph Campanile
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May 5, 2022
Probably the best book I've ever read because of the accompanied movie. The revised text is a great thing for some who wants to read it through and quickly understand without having to flip to the back every other page.
Bowitboy
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May 21, 2016
I know a lot of you are complaining about the language. Yeah it's to read but it's fantastic. I loved every page.
Marissa Lynne
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March 21, 2015
Uh, what the f.... Why bother decoding the whole dam thing?
About the author
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.
Andrew Biswell, PhD, is the author of The Real Life of Anthony Burgess.
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