A Clockwork Orange: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

A clockwork orange by Anthony Burges was first written in 1962 is a completely different type of novel that one would expect to read at the first place. When I started reading the novel for the first time it seemed boring and the language was also very difficult. The author uses a lot of slang words. The main character of the novel is a 14 year old named Alex when the novel starts. The novel is very violent. The author has used a very challenging vocabulary other than the standard language. I really liked some of the words like milicents droogs and devochkas are used to describe the police, brothers and girls I mean that seemed cool. Initially when I read the book it seemed to be very disturbing and boring, Alex seems like a complete psychopath at the beginning but then he kind of changes This is a classic book it may seem very boring at times and you might not want to read it but as the novel goes the story becomes more and more intriguing.. I started liking this book when I read the fourth of it. It was easy to understand after a while even a glossary of the words is given at the back to get familiar with the terms used by the writer. I read it thoroughly with attention so I could understand even the more minute details about the story. You might want to read it more than once also. Like there is part in the book where Alex jumps from an apartment window. Before jumping off he says, “I shut my glazzies and fell the cold winds on my litso, then I jumped. “ After this line he tells that, “I jumped, O my brothers, and fell on the sidewalk hard, but I did not snuff it, oh no if I had snuffed it I would not be here to write what I have written.” This is first time I got to know that Alex is actually writing the story otherwise it’s like he is just telling his story. There is also a lot of code switching in the novel as well. . I liked the 21 chapter idea of Anthony Burges. His book had 21 chapters as like a man gets mature when he is 21. Book was very thoughtfully the book ends differently as there are only 20 chapters in the US version of the book. I wish the US version had 21 full chapters as originally written by Anthony Burges.

I looked up “British version” and this came up so I thought it was the one, it wasn’t, however my girlfriend still loved this Christmas present.

I own a few copies of this text, but for class was required to purchase this edition. I <3 Norton anyway (if only they would get on the Kindle), and this is no exception. The footnotes are authoritative and cover all bases, from giving a definition for an infrequently used English word, to the history of British football, to marginal notes Burgess made on the typescript, to notes made in previous Norton editions (a feature I wish other editors would chose to use more often). There are essays and interviews with Burgess in the back along with all the expected criticisms and a few unexpected ones. I think the inclusion of essays on the film are a nice addition to round out the experience of _A Clockwork Orange_.Well done.(and it never hurts that it showed up within three days of ordering)

I've used the previous edition, but this new edition has footnotes and really brings into context more clearly what's going on in this story. It also provides a lot of Burgess' own ideas into the fold of things. I could've lived without references to the film, but that's just me. I would've liked more contemporary criticism as I'll be teaching this in the Winter. Still, a vast improvement from Norton in regards to their previous edition.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is one of those books which stayed with me after the reading and one which while reading I wasn't sure if I quite liked. And while it has much to say, I'm not altogether sure how much I agree with.Even the main character, the charismatic Alex is a quite unsavory youth, who excels at violence for its own sake and yet shows his finer side by his love for classical music. Does this small glimmer of gentility, redeem him?In the last chapter of the book Alex states:"I knew what was happening, oh my brothers, I was like growing up.Yes, yes, yes, there it was. Youth must go, ah yes. But youth is only being in a way like it might be an animal. No, it is not just like being an animal so much as being like one of these malenky toys you viddy being sold in the streets, like little chllovecks made out of tin and with a spring inside and then a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up and grr grr grrr and of it itties, like walking, O my britgers, But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines."Hmmm...such a strange excuse, especially when considering much of the book is about free will, choice and mind control or maybe it is not strange at all.

This has a higher star-rating, as at least one (and probably more) used this area to inappropriately complain about "not receiving the book" which is a mercantile problem Use the A-Z Guarantee system. The book is five star: read it, read a few essays so you'll appreciate it's brilliance, and write a book, NOT service review. Please join me in reporting all such misplace criticisms as "inappropriate.Amazon, remove them, please - they pollute you otherwise very useful review system!!!!!!

Certainly not an easy read but a great story!

I didn't know about how the Norton Critical Editions worked (a bunch of essays and materials at the back) when I bought this so if you're not looking for a bunch of additional readings then maybe look for another version. I still like this copy though and will perhaps read some of the materials at some point.

Ein typischer Fall von "Don't judge a book by its cover". Es gibt wahrlich optisch ansprechendere Ausgaben von A Clockwork Orange, aber kaum inhaltlich bessere. Durch Unmengen von Sekundärliteratur, die dem eigentlichen Text zur Seite gestellt werden, eignet sich diese Ausgabe ganz hervorragend für wissenschaftliches Arbeiten.

il libro è sì usato, ma come si presente letteralmente come da descrizione. Consultabilissimo, quasi nuovo. Sono molto soddisfatta del mio acquisto