A Clockwork Orange
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess'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 brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to redeem him, the novel asks, At what c…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-34304-5
- EAN: 9780393343045
- Produktnummer: 34249332
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 236 KB
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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the 100 best novels of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.
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