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A Clockwork Orange
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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.Download the free Fable app
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Elen
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“Uhm, that was unexpected. Brutal. I liked the style and the background of the idea and so on - very interesting and important -, but it’s not one of my hobbies to spend my time reading about violence. Like - there is NO ONE in that book who gains my sympathy really.
The protagonist is of course to be judged, but because of the things that happen to him (because of his behavior) you will tend to feel sorry for him all the way. That’s also because he’s the narrator. But it makes me cringe to read that stuff from his perspective, though it’s important to have the insight. But though it’s not actually what the story is about, a big part of the book makes it so. The message and so on could have been better placed maybe.
But who am I to judge really😅 just could have been more explaining the wrong that happens there instead of describing all the violence happening.”Cassidy Garrison
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Argo Gulski
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“This book’s Humble Narrator is one of the best characters I have ever read in fiction. Alex is brutal yet beautiful in his own way. He is a spectrum of humanity, both victimizer and victim, who finds himself made into something less than human by the State as punishment for his crimes. A Clockwork Orange presents a warning against state sponsored behavior modification, explores the importance of free will, and whether the choice to do both good or bad is part of what makes us human.”Start a Book Club
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