A Clockwork Orange
4 June 2019
Territory Rights — Worldwide excluding Canada and the British Commonwealth.
Description
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
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.”
Reviews
"Looks like a nasty little shocker, but is really that rare thing in English letters: a philosophical novel." — Time
"A Clockwork Orange… is a book that can still be read with steady pleasure, continuous amusement and—at times—incredulous admiration." — Martin Amis, New York Times Book Review
"A terrifying and marvelous book." — Roald Dahl
"A very funny book." — William S. Burroughs
"Told in high-flying, pyrotechnic patois that’s since bled into the cultural lexicon, A Clockwork Orange is a postmodern triumph." — Esquire
"A fine farrago of outrageousness.… If you don’t take to it all, then I can’t resist calling you a starry ptitsa who can’t viddy a horrorshow veshch when it’s in front of your glazzies. And yarbles to you." — Kingsley Amis
"One of the most groundbreaking and influential novels of all time8#212and one of the best." — Irvine Welsh
"A nasty little shocker." — Times Literary Supplement
"All Mr. Burgess’s powers as a comic writer, which are considerable, have gone into the rich language of his inverted Utopia." — Malcolm Bradbury
"Extraordinary technical feat." — New Statesman
Also By: Anthony Burgess 
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Paperback, 1968
Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.
Honey for the Bears
Paperback, 2013
"There are so few genuinely entertaining novels around that we ought to cheer whenever one turns up. Continuous, fizzing energy…Honey for the Bears is a triumph." —Kingsley Amis, New York Times
Nothing Like the Sun
Paperback, 2013
"Wildly inventive" —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
Tremor of Intent
Paperback, 2013
A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.
Tremor of Intent
E Book, 2013
A brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.