A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition by Anthony Burgess
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A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition
by Anthony Burgess
Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, featuring:
- A glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat'
- Explanatory notes
- Pages from the original typescript
- Interviews, articles, and reviews
Edited by Andrew Biswell with a Foreword by Martin Amis.
'It is a horrorshow story ...'
Fifteen-year-old Alex enjoys lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill, and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State intervenes to stop his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education entail?
A dystopian horror, a black comedy, and an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention that created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text as Burgess originally wrote it and includes:
- A glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat'
- Explanatory notes
- Pages from the original typescript
- Interviews, articles, and reviews
These elements shed light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He served 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 works include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers, and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess passed away 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.
Page Count: 352 pages
Published: 05/12/2013
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