A Clockwork Orange

Restored Edition

Anthony Burgess, Andrew Biswell

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Penguin
13 January 2014

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text

Edited by Andrew Biswell

With a Foreword by Martin Amis

Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?

A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.

By: Anthony Burgess
Edited by: Andrew Biswell
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 113mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9780141197531
ISBN 10: 0141197536
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 13 January 2014
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993. Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.