A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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A Clockwork Orange
- By: Anthony Burgess
- Narrated by: Tom Hollander
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction
About this listen
In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future, as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish urban landscape until Alex is captured by the judicial arm of the state. He then becomes their prized guinea pig in a scientific program to completely "redeem" him for society.
If we had the power of absolute criminal reform, what, the novel asks, would this mean for our ideals of freedom and society? This edition reinstates the final chapter missing from Kubrick's film, in which Alex is on the verge of starting a family as he reflects on - and completely rejects - his adolescent nastiness. It also includes Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked".
©1962 The Estate of Anthony Burgess (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks
Anonymous User
A real horrorshow raskazz
A Clockwork Orange is an excellent title that mixes dark humour with a great deal of subtle political commentary. Its excessive use of fictional colloquialisms (Nadsat) greatly immerses the reader into a world that wears its darkness on its sleeve.
Jason Starling
classic literature with a fantastic performance
loved it! the performer reading was absolutely engaging couldn’t stop listening highly recommend to anyone who loves great literature and story telling also the special reading by Anthony Burgess at the end was particularly horror show. Viddy well my brothers