A Clockwork Orange (English, Paperback, Burgess Anthony)
A Clockwork Orange (English, Paperback, Burgess Anthony)
- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre: Fiction
- ISBN: 9780141182605, 0141182601
- Edition: 2000
- Pages: 176
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A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novella by Anthony Burgess.
Summary of the Book
In a dystopian future, London has fallen into a nightmarish version of its present self. In this land, a group of teenagers indulges in violent crimes for fun. The four teenagers, Alex, Dim, Georgie and Pete, they constantly abuse drugs. One night, they are high on a drug called drencrom, and they decide to go on a spree of violence. They assault a scholar walking home from a public library and rob a store, injuring the owners as well. They then abuse a poor man and fight a rival gang. They follow up the night with a ride on a stolen car, breaking into an isolated cottage. They find a young couple and beat the husband while raping the wife. It is soon clear that nothing is beyond the morals of the gang. The government tries to change Alex for the better, at a terrible cost.
About Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson was an English writer and composer. He is also known for The Long Day Wanes trilogy comprising of Time for a Tiger, The Enemy in the Blanket and Beds in the East.
A Clockwork Orange was adapted into a hit film by Stanley Kubrick. The movie won the 1972 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and was nominated for 4 Academic Awards: Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Read this Book before watching the award winning movie by Stanley Kubrick
Though the font size in these "penguin classic" edition are quite small but it's really comfortable in case of this book because it's only of 140 pages.
A must read for literary fiction fans .
If u like this book , you might also like "Brave New World" by
Aldous Huxley
K Karthick
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Feb, 2012
Nice
Kumar Kaustubh
Certified Buyer, Lucknow
Feb, 2020
Very Horrorshow
Mugdha Kale
Certified Buyer, Aurangabad
Dec, 2013
Bloody Perfect
The book is based on the premise that every man needs the ability to decide his own fate and personality than being conditioned to a different person on the whim of the society.
The author's use of nadsat vocabulary through out the novel gives the book a very sophisticated feel, but it is worth it.
Do yourself a favor, read this book before you do anything else
Rajkumar Palanisamy
Certified Buyer, Chennai
Mar, 2014
Dystopian fiction novel at it's best
Yarbles, bolshy great yarblockos to thee and thine!
Mehernosh Sanjana
Aug, 2013
Nice
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Shruti Ghosh
Certified Buyer, Garulia
Mar, 2020
philosophy behind the book
This book just makes you question
Is it really as bad to be bad or is it just the fear and moral obligations thrust upon us by the society that makes us tamper with our true nature and behave of only permitted sorts to please in a way everyone around us.
Disorder is the nature of the universe so indeed some obnoxiousness is natural to the behavior of all living being's & maybe religion w...
jack tomer
Jun, 2013
A Masterpiece
Aniket Banerjee
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Feb, 2013
Brilliant
Abhishek Jindal
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Sep, 2012
Value-for-money
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