Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) wrote
A Clockwork Orangeshortly after his “terminal” year when he produced a spate of novels in the belief that he would die shortly from a brain tumour. The year passed, and he lived.
A Clockwork Orangewas published in London by William Heinemann in May 1962, following
One Hand Clapping(1961) and preceding
The Wanting Seed(1962), a similarly grim dystopian novel. Soon after its British release,
A Clockwork Orangewas published in a truncated version by W. W. Norton in the USA. It has been reprinted dozens of times, thanks in large part to the controversial film which was released in 1971. In 2010 Penguin reprinted it as part of its Modern Classics series and Random House UK released it as an Audio Book CD. In spite of, or perhaps because of, its…
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