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A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess


$16.99
Condition - Very Good
6 in stock

Summary

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. This is the story of Alex and his teenage gang, The Droogs, their life of rape and murder, and ultraviolence, and the moral dilemma that arises when Alex is brainwashed into good citizenship.

A Clockwork Orange Summary

A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music by Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess's stage play of his infamous cult novel and film of the same name. Alex and his vicious teenage gang revel in horrific violence, mugging and gang rape. Alex also revels in the music of Beethoven. The Gang communicates in a language which is as complicated as their actions. When a drug-fuelled night of fun ends in murder, Alex is finally busted and banged up. He is given a choice - be brainwashed into good citizenship and set free, or face a lifetime inside. Anthony Burgess's play with music, based on his own provocative 1962 novella of the same name, was first published in 1987. A Clockwork Orange was made into a film classic by Stanley Kubrick in 1971 and was dramatizes by the RSC in 1990.

A Clockwork Orange Reviews

'Almost 50 years after Anthony Burgess's 1962 novella of juvenile delinquency, today's 21st-century-post-conscription, post-short-sharp-shock, post-Asbo age seems like prophecy.' Neil Cooper, Herald, 18.10.10

About Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer - during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy. Diagnosed with an unoperable brain tumour in 1959, Burgess became a full-time writer and went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993. His many works include: The Complete Enderby, Tremor of Intent and The Kingdom of the Wicked.

Additional information

GOR001766380
9780413735904
0413735907
A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music by Anthony Burgess
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
19981001
112
N/A
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