A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming …
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A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. According to Burgess, it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks.
In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The original manuscript of the book has been kept at McMaster University's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since the institution purchased the documents in 1971. It is considered one of the most influential dystopian books.
Also contained in:
A Clockwork Orange and Honey for the Bears A Clockwork Orange / The Wanting Seed
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A Clockwork Orange
Paperback, 176 pages
Published by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-90-01-80846-4Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange, A
Paperback
Published by Ballantine Books.
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- 978-0-345-01708-6Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
112 pages
English language
Published 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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- 978-1-4081-4098-7Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
Hardcover
Published by Klett-Cotta.
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- 978-3-608-93990-3Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 1963 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..
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- 978-0-393-08519-8Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 1998 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
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- 978-1-4081-4097-0Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 2018 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9832-5437-6Copied ISBN!
La naranja mecánica
157 pages
Spanish language
Published 1999 by Unidad.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-8130-201-1Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4742-6133-3Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 2013 by Penguin Books, Limited.
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- 978-0-14-197068-4Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 2011 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-190832-8Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 2018 by Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9770-1783-3Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 2017 by Independently Published.
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- 978-1-9767-7338-9Copied ISBN!
Uhrwerk orange
German language
Published 1993 by Wilhelm HeyneVerlag, Heyne.
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- 978-3-453-02388-8Copied ISBN!
Clockwork Orange
English language
Published 2021 by Independently Published.
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- 979-8-7589-0728-3Copied ISBN!
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