A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition

Author: Anthony Burgess

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780141197531
  • : Penguin UK
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  • : January 2014
  • : 181mm X 111mm X 20mm
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  • : Anthony Burgess
  • : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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Barcode 9780141197531
9780141197531

Description

'What's it going to be then, eh?' This special edition of A Clockwork Orangerestores the text of Anthony Burgess' novel as he originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of his teen slang 'Nadsat', pages from the original typescript, explanatory notes, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the book's 'sweet and juicy criminality'. Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis'Still delivers the shock of the new . . . a red streak of gleeful evil.' Martin Amis

Reviews

A terrifying and marvellous book -- Roald Dahl Still delivers the shock of the new ... a red streak of gleeful evil -- Martin Amis

Author description

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993. Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.