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Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews

Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis

'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 t

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A terrifying and marvellous book -- Roald Dahl
Still delivers the shock of the new ... a red streak of gleeful evil -- Martin Amis

A Clockwork Orange. Critical Edition

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 5 December 2013
      ISBN-13 9780141197531
      978-0141197531
      ISBN-10 0141197536
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      Fiction Dystopian & Alternative History Fiction Science Fiction Sci-Fi

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews

      Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis

      '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 t

      Trade Review
      A terrifying and marvellous book -- Roald Dahl
      Still delivers the shock of the new ... a red streak of gleeful evil -- Martin Amis

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