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| Original Title: | A Clockwork Orange |
| ISBN: | 0393341763 (ISBN13: 9780393341768) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Pete, Alex Jacobi, Georgie, Dim |
| Setting: | England |
| Literary Awards: | Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (2008) |
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In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess’s introduction, “A Clockwork Orange Resucked.”Point Out Of Books A Clockwork Orange
| Title | : | A Clockwork Orange |
| Author | : | Anthony Burgess |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 240 pages |
| Published | : | May 21st 2019 by W. W. Norton Company (first published 1962) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Romance |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 566106 Users | 12804 ReviewsAssess Out Of Books A Clockwork Orange
One of my favorite books of all time...but be warned that the ending is different than the ending of Stanley Kubrick's movie (also a classic). Truth be told I prefer the movie ending...but the overall message is the same: when a generation of vipers slithers free who provided the nest they were spawned in?Im not sure how Ive got through over 50 years without reading this and this year I have one or two books on my list which could be titled books I should have read as a teenager and probably shouldnt read now. This is one of them.The history surrounding it is also interesting. Burgess was returning home with his wife from working abroad for six years in 1960, He was at this point diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour (mistakenly as it happens). He set to writing and wrote five and a half
In the near future in an Utopian socialist country, England where everyone has to work ( except the ill or old) whether the job makes any sense or not, a group of teenagers like to party without limits at night. Alex the leader, George 2nd in command, Pete the most sane and the big dim Dim, he's good with his boots, fun loving kids. Your humble narrator Alex, will tell this story my brothers ...First they see an ancient man leaving the library carrying books, very suspicious nobody goes there
A Clockwork Orange is one of those books which everyone has heard of but which few people have actually read - mostly, I think, because it is preceded by a reputation of shocking ultra-violence. Im not going to deny here that the book contains violence. It features lengthy descriptions of heinous crimes, and theyre vivid descriptions, full of excitement. (Burgess later wrote in his autobiography: I was sickened by my own excitement at setting it down.) Yet it does not glorify violence, nor is it
How to review an infamous book about which so much has already been said? By avoiding reading others thoughts until Ive written mine.There are horrors in this book, but there is beauty too, and so much to think about. The ends of the book justify the means of its execution, even if the same is not true of what happens in the story.Book vs Film, and Omission of Final ChapterI saw the film first, and read the book shortly afterwards. Usually a bad idea, but in this case, being familiar with the
437. A Clockwork Orange Anthony BurgessA Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. Set in a near future English society featuring a subculture of extreme youth 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". تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز یازدهم ماه اکتبر سال 2002 میلادیعنوان: پرتقال
Let's begin with the Penguin book cover....Too cool for words! And the novel....It's DARK. While slow going at first, it didn't take long to get the drift of the slang, nadsat talk....all the teens use it, but I recommend staying with it without long interruption once you start. "It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more. I'm not one bit scared of you, my boyos, because I'm too drunk to feel the pain if you hit me and if
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