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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (UK Version)

by ANTHONY BURGESS

Contents

Introduction(A Clockwork Orange Resucked)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Glossary of Nadsat Language


Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and was a graduate of the University there.
After six years in the Army he worked as an instructor for the Central Advisory Council for
Forces Education, as a lecturer in ics and as a grammar school master. From 1954 till
1960 he was an education officer in the Colonial Service, stationed in Malaya and Brunei. He
has been called one of the very few literary geniuses of our time. Certainly he borrowed from
no other literary source than himself. That source produced thirty-two novels, a volume of
verse, two plays, and sixteen works of nonfiction-together with countless positions,
including symphonies, operas, and jazz. His most recent work was A Mouthful of Air:
Language, Languages...Especially English. Anthony Burgess died in 1993.
Introduction
A Clockwork Orange Resucked
I first published the novella A Clockwork Orange in 1962, which ought to be far enough in the
past for it to be erased from the world's literary memory. It refuses to be erased, however, and
for this the film version of the book made by Stanley Kubrick may be held chiefly responsible. I
should myself be glad to disown it for various reasons, but this is not permitted. I receive mail
from students who try to write theses about it or requests from Japanese dramaturges to turn
It into a sort of Noh play. It seems likely to survive, while other works of mine that I value
more bite the dust. This is not an unusual experience for an artist. Rachmaninoff used to groan
because he was known mainly for a Prelude in C Sharp Minor which he wrote as a boy, while
the works of his maturity never got into the programmes. Kids cut their pianistic teeth on a
Minuet in G which posed only so that he could detest it. I have to go on living
with A Clockwork Orange, and th