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192 pages (hardback edition) 176 pages (paperback edition) ISBN. 978-0-434-09800-2. OCLC. 4205836. A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence.
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess 's 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian near-future Britain.
Signature. John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/ ˈbɜːrdʒəs /; [ 2 ] 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. [ 3 ]
1985. (Burgess novel) 1985 is a novel by English writer Anthony Burgess. Originally this book was published in 1978, it was inspired by, and was intended as a tribute to, George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. [1] It was adapted by Guy Meredith as a radio play and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 23 January 1985.
Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess 's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Burgess was a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian -influenced English. [1] The name comes from the Russian suffix equivalent of -teen as in thirteen ...
The film is an essential part of modern cinema and films often reference it, [ 5 ] with examples of films using similar cinematic techniques to A Clockwork Orange including THX 1138 (1971), Westworld (1973) and A Boy and His Dog (1975). [ 1 ] The June 2006 issue of Entertainment Weekly named A Clockwork Orange the second most controversial film ...
Ninety-nine Novels. Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English since 1939 — A Personal Choice is an essay by British writer Anthony Burgess, published by Allison & Busby in 1984. It covers a 44-year span between 1939 and 1983. Burgess was a prolific reader, in his early career reviewing more than 350 novels in just over two years for The ...
British. Alex is a fictional character in Anthony Burgess ' novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick 's film adaptation of the same name, in which he is played by Malcolm McDowell. In the book, Alex's surname is not stated. In the film, however, Kubrick chose it to be DeLarge, a reference to Alex calling himself The Large in the novel.