A Clockwork Orange

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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
"There were the golosses of millicents telling them to shut it and you could slooshy the zvook of like somebody being tolchocked real horrorshow and going owwwwwwww and it was like the goloss of a drunken starry psitsa not a man."
It's the near future. In an unnamed city (London? Berlin? Prague?) Alex and his teenage droogs are on the prowl, spending their evenings looking for ultra-violence, rape, even murder. There's a price to be paid, though, when Alex Is jailed and subjected to the chilling Ludovico Technique that will turn him into a good citizen. But is it morally right to deprive someone of his capacity for evil?
Told with breathtaking economy, written in the bravura Anglo-Russian slang called Nadsat, Anthony Burgess' dazzling study of violence and human choice is as fresh and relevant today as when it first appeared in 1962.
Printed in a special edition for Independent readers, A Clockwork Orange is the first in a 25-book collection... Tovább

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liAMNHI) BOOKS
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
"There were the golosses of millicents telling them to shut it and you could slooshy the zvook of like somebody being tolchocked real horrorshow and going owwwwwwww and it was like the goloss of a drunken starry psitsa not a man."
It's the near future. In an unnamed city (London? Berlin? Prague?) Alex and his teenage droogs are on the prowl, spending their evenings looking for ultra-violence, rape, even murder. There's a price to be paid, though, when Alex Is jailed and subjected to the chilling Ludovico Technique that will turn him into a good citizen. But is it morally right to deprive someone of his capacity for evil?
Told with breathtaking economy, written in the bravura Anglo-Russian slang called Nadsat, Anthony Burgess' dazzling study of violence and human choice is as fresh and relevant today as when it first appeared in 1962.
Printed in a special edition for Independent readers, A Clockwork Orange is the first in a 25-book collection of Banned Books - full-length books from the canon of Western literature that have, over the years, been banned, censored, stifled, blue-pencilled, expurgated or burned in public. Their survival Is a triumph of independent thought over the forces of repression, and a reminder of how exhilarating fiction at the cutting edge of the imagination can be. Each week, readers will be offered the featured title at a special discounted price. Each exclusive, collectable edition may be purchased either (i) directly from any participating newsagent; (ii) by calling a special phone number, or (iii) by logging on to www.independent.co.uk/bannedbooks Vissza