EDITORIAL REVIEW: Anthony Burgess's modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption, reissued to include the controversial last chapter not previously published in this country, with a new introduction by the author.
A Clockwork Orange
โ Scribed by Burgess, Anthony
- Publisher
- Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
- Year
- 2010;2005
- Tongue
- UND
- Weight
- 102 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this [book]. In [the author's] nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that ... renders his and his friends' social pathology. [This] is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"--Back cover.
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