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  • Published: 13 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141197531
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.00

A Clockwork Orange

Restored Edition

  • Anthony Burgess



Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text

Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis

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'.

  • Published: 13 January 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141197531
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $26.00

Praise for A Clockwork Orange

A terrifying and marvellous book

Roald Dahl

Still delivers the shock of the new ... a red streak of gleeful evil

Martin Amis