A Clockwork Orange


A Clockwork Orange
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Presents Burgess' satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence, and includes the final chapter deleted from the first American edition.
Manufacturer : Turtleback
Release date : 1 June 1995
ISBN-10 : 0808581945 | ISBN-13: 9780808581949
Fiction (2), 1960s (1), 1962 (1), Literature (1), Dystopia (1), Sci-fi (1), Great Britain (1), 1940-1969 (1), Novels (1), Made Into A Film (1)
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""Like 1984, this is a book in which an entire social order is implied through language. And what language! To hint at the vile universe of the 15-year-old delinquent Alex and his murderous buddies, Burgess created "nadsat," a rich futuristic patois. "Sinny" for "cinema." "Viddy" for "see," "horrorshow" for "good"—from the Russian, khorosho, which gives you some idea of which political system has prevailed. The words locate him in a world of corrupted values, violence and boundless infantile in"


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"Like 1984, this is a book in which an entire social order is implied through language. And what language! To hint at the vile universe of the 15-year-old delinquent Alex and his murderous buddies, Burgess created "nadsat," a rich futuristic patois. "Sinny" for "cinema." "Viddy" for "see," "horrorshow" for "good"—from the Russian, khorosho, which gives you some idea of which political system has prevailed. The words locate him in a world of corrupted values, violence and boundless infantile ind"


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