3.9

A Clockwork Orange

von Anthony Burgess

Format:Hardcover

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

Literary & Contemporary Fiction
Hardcover
Erschienen an: 2012-10-22

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Aktuelle Rezensionen(2)

3.9(40 ratings)
IlyasRezension von Ilyas

I actually enjoyed this book. Started it with a level of uncertainty thinking I won’t really enjoy it. Turned out to be a great novel. Under the layer of all the violence it has a fair criticism of the society. Author uses a lot of somewhat modified Russian words, to me (native Russian speaker) it was easy to get the meaning, but for a non-Russian speakers might be confusing

GraVRezension von GraV

A difficult read. The slang words used by the protagonist take some time to get used to. The story itself was good. Nothing breathtaking, it was (just) interesting. This is one of those books you can think about for hours after you finished it. The ending left me a bit unsatisfied though.

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