A Clockwork Orange: Critical Edition by Anthony Burgess
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Overview: 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.
He achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the leading novelists of his day, and one of the most versatile. He wrote criticism, stage plays, translations and a Broadway musical, and he composed more than 150 musical works, including a piano concerto, a violin concerto for Yehudi Menuhin, and a symphony. 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.
Genre: Science Fiction | Dystopian
A Clockwork Orange: Critical Edition by Anthony Burgess
‘It is a horrorshow story…’
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’.
Includes:
Foreword by Martin Amis
Introduction by Andrew Biswell
Notes
Nadsat Glossary
Prolgue to A Clockwork Orange: A Play with Music by Anthony Burgess
Epilogue: ‘A Malenky Govoreet about the Molodoy’ by Anthony Burgess
Essays, Articles and Reviews:
‘The Human Russians’ by Anthony Burgess
‘Clockwork Marmalade’ by Anthony Burgess
Extract from an Unpublished Interview with Anthony Burgess
Programme Note for A Clockwork Orange 2004 by Anthony Burgess
‘Ludwig Van’, a review of Beethoven by Maynard Solomon by Anthony Burgess
‘Gash Gold-Vermillion’ by Anthony Burgess
‘A Clockwork Orange’ by Kingsley Amis
‘New Novels’ by Malcolm Bradbury
‘Horror Show’ by Christopher Ricks
‘All Life is One: The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End’ by A. S. Byatt
Afterword by Stanley Edgar Hyman
A Last Word on Violence by Anthony Burgess
Annotated pages from Anthony Burgess’s 1961 Typescript of A Clockwork Orange
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