A new critical edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange - one of the most influential books of the twentieth century
A new critical edition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of A Clockwork Orange - one of the most influential books of the twentieth century
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He spent six years
in the army before becoming a schoolmaster and a colonial education
officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan
Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959.
He achieved an international reputation as one of the leading
novelists of his day, and one of the most versatile. He wrote
criticism, stage plays, translations and a Broadway musical, and he
composed more than 150 musical works, including a piano concerto, a
violin concerto for Yehudi Menuhin, and a symphony. His books have
been published all over the world and include The Complete Enderby,
Earthly Powers, Nothing Like the Sun, A Dead Man in Deptford and
Byrne. Burgess died in London in 1993.
Andrew Biswell is the Director of the International Anthony Burgess
Foundation and Principal Lecturer in English at Manchester
Metropolitan University. His publications include The Real Life of
Anthony Burgess.
A terrifying and marvellous book.
*Roald Dahl*
A brilliant novel . . . a tour-de-force in nastiness, an inventive
primer in total violence, a savage satire on the distortions of the
single and collective minds.
*The New York Times*
I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with
language as Mr Burgess has done here - the fact that this is also a
very funny book may pass unnoticed.
*William Burroughs*
Burgess’s dystopian fantasy still fascinates as it clocks up 50
years
*The Times*
The 50th anniversary of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is
celebrated this weekend with the publication of a handsome new
hardback edition (the edges of its paper are orange!) by Random
House (£20). It is compiled and edited by Andrew Biswell –
Burgess's biographer – and has a foreword by Martin Amis, as well
as unpublished material including a 1972 interview with Burgess,
the prologue to his 1986 A Clockwork Orange: A Play With Music, and
his annotated 1961 typescript of the novel, complete with his
doodles in the margins. His picture of an orange with a spring
poking out of it is particularly special
*Independent*
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