Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A
Clockwork Orange, with 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
likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob,
kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the
State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his
re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an
exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of
exuberant invention which created a new language for its
characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as
Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the
teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original
typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding 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 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.
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