A Clockwork Orange

Name: A Clockwork Orange
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Author: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780061450877

Author: Anthony Burgess

Narrator: Tom Hollander

Unabridged: 7 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/12/2007

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Satire, Humorous Fiction

Synopsis

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."

About Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess is the author of many works, including The Long Day Wanes, The Wanting Seed, The Doctor Is Sick, Nothing Like the Sun, Honey for the Bears, and Re Joyce.

About Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander has starred in such films as Gosford Park, Pride and Prejudice, Possession, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and 3, as well as on Broadway and the West End.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Martine

A Clockwork Orange is one of those books which everyone has heard of but which few people have actually read –- mostly, I think, because it is preceded by a reputation of shocking ultra-violence. I’m not going to deny here that the book contains violence. It features lengthy descriptions of heinous......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf

Just leave the Milk Bar to go bonkers Not as awesome as expected A classic, probably a bit overrated book, and one of the rare cases in which I would say that the movie is better than the book. The most unnecessary thing was to add an extra chapter at the end that took the flow, logic, and atmosphe......more

Goodreads review by Paul

In 1960 Anthony Burgess was 43 and had written 4 novels and had a proper job teaching in the British Colonial Service in Malaya and Brunei. Then he had a collapse and the story gets complicated. But I like the first cool version AB told, which was that he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumou......more