A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Book Summary Information
Author: Anthony BurgessEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1986-11
ISBN: 0393312836
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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- ISBN13: 9780393312836
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Book Reviews of A Clockwork Orange
Book Review: The infamous classic of modern fiction.
Summary: 5 Stars
Burgess himself has criticized and attacked this novel which
he published in 1968, but which has come to be regarded
alongside such dystopian classics as _Brave New World_ and,
perhaps more appropriately, Yevgeny Zamyatin's _We_. An
unsparing story of a sociopathic hoodlum, Alex, _A Clockwork
Orange_ is shocking and often a difficult read despite the
bizarre and sometimes surreal street language employed by
its narrator, a dialect of some archaic words, a few
neologisms, and a great deal of Anglicized Russian. The
film by Stanley Kubrick is equally disturbing, but, as
Burgess himself notes in the introduction to this edition,
leaves off the crucial twenty-first chapter, a chapter that
is vital to the book both for its numerical significance
(twenty-one being considered the age of maturity), and its
philosophical poignance.
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