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A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess, Andrew Biswell
A Clockwork Orange
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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... show more
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. 6 illustrations
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780393089134 (0393089134)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
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"So it goes."
"So it goes." rated it
3.5 A Clockwork Orange -- wow.
I'm now going to allow myself to see this film, now that I've read the entire book, including the redemption/change final chapter that was so gallingly removed from the US versions for so long. I've never seen Kubrick's film because I knew I wanted to read the book first. This is marked as "dystopia...
The better to see you, my dear
The better to see you, my dear rated it
3.0 Words fail me
Alright, there is a lot going on in this little piece of poison dripping, mind-fuck of a story, and I don't know that I'm up to the task. First of all, because it's the immediate, I call bullshit on that end (I'm talking of the 21th chapter that was cut-out of the USA version; if you've not read i...
What I am reading
What I am reading rated it
5.0 Still horrorshow
It must have been more than ten years since I first read A Clockwork Orange and I still remember what a struggle I had with this one! Thanks to all the nadsat expressions I didn’t pony cul as our little droog Alex would say. I have to admit that now, after having learned Russian (at least to a certa...
Carpe Librum
Carpe Librum rated it
4.0 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
This is a book that is easy to read and discount for its violent content, but if one is willing to look deeper there are important themes that we can learn from, as exist in all great dystopian novels."Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness?"That is the central question asked in A Clockwor...
zaczytany
zaczytany rated it
4.5 "Mechaniczna pomarańcza" Anthony Burgess
Jest to jedna z książek, które patrzą na mnie z pudła wyprzedażowego i nie pozwalają pójść dalej. Musiałem wrócić i ją przygarnąć, nie było wyjścia. A tak serio, który bibliofil oparłby się pokusie przeczytania pierwowzoru jednego z najgłośniejszych filmów Kubricka? No właśnie. Takim propozycjom po ...
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