A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess W W Norton Co 1963

A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess W W Norton Co 1963 One of esquire's 50 best sci fi books of all time “a brilliant novel.… [a] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.”— new york times , a clockwork orange, anthony burgess, 9780393341768. “a brilliant novel . . . a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds.” — new york times “anthony burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in english letters: a philosophical novel.” — time , a clockwork orange, a norton critical edition, anthony burgess, mark rawlinson, 9780393928099.

A Clockwork Orange By Burgess Anthony Afterword By Stanley Edgar Hyman A clockwork orange by burgess, anthony, 1917 1993. 1963 publisher new york : w. w. norton collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled contributor internet archive. 192 pages (hardback edition) 176 pages (paperback edition) isbn. 978 0 434 09800 2. oclc. 4205836. a clockwork orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by english writer anthony burgess, published in 1962. it is set in a near future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. A vicious fifteen year old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. in anthony burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the 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 terrifying tale about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom, a clockwork orange became an instant classic when it was published in 1962 and has remained so ever since. anthony burgess takes us on a journey to a nightmarish future where sociopathic criminals rule the night. brilliantly told in harsh invented slang by the novel’s.