Clockwork Orange

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Anthony Burgess: Clockwork Orange (1963, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

English language

Published Nov. 10, 1963 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W..

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978-0-393-08519-8
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A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Nadsat", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. According to Burgess, it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks.

In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The original manuscript of the book has been kept at McMaster University's William Ready Division of Archives and …

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  • British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, satire
  • Fiction, dystopian
  • Fiction, science fiction, general