A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

$10,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. viii , 196 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black boards. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #352457 Richly inventive in language, written in an argot that borrows heavily from the Russian, and with an unforgettable antihero at its center, Burgess's book was overshadowed by the futuristic 1971 film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick, which followed after the American edition of the novel, leaving off the final redeeming

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