Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction
Summary
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.