A Clockwork Orange
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780393312836
Copyright date: 1986
Description: A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title.

In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex—to "redeem" him—the novel asks, "At what cost?"

This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked".
(back cover)
Notes: Norton Paperback Fiction