Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993.Īndrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959.

He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.Īnthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. But what will his re-education mean?Ī dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. A Penguin paperback.Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviewsĮdited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amisįifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. While it's interesting to hear the older and gruffer voice, it does not compare to Hollander's performance. The final CD features selected readings by Burgess from a previous recorded abridged version. The audiobook opens with a brief note by Burgess on living with the book's legacy. This unabridged production also includes the 21st chapter, which was not dramatized in the film or in the book's original U.S. With a smooth, almost lyrical, crisp voice, Hollander delivers Burgess's 'nadsat' dialect to readers with such rhythmic cadence that listeners will easily understand the extensive slang used throughout the book. While Malcolm McDowell forever infused viewers with the look of Alex in the film, Tom Hollander performs an even more amazing feat. This audiobook gives new life to Burgess's tale of recklessly violent youth, free will and true redemption. However, when he repeatedly runs into people he has wronged in the past, his real suffering begins. The experiment leaves him physically incapable of doing wrong and releases him back into the world. When he volunteers for an experiment, his sentence is commuted to two weeks. After his youthful adventures of raping and pillaging, Alex finds himself in prison.

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