A clockwork orange
(1986, original release: 1962)
Fiction
Book
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FICTION/BURGESS,A
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PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton, [1986]
©1986
©1986
EDITION
[New, American edition]
DESCRIPTION
xv, 213 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0393312836 :
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first Amercian edition and an introduction by the author
Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile delinquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior
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