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(London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1962). First UK Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original first issue black cloth with spine lettered in gilt in the first issue dustwrapper with deeper flaps and the original price of 16s on the lower front flap. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. Scattered foxing to the top and fore-edges otherwise VG indeed. No inscriptions. A crease to the left-hand corner of the rear free end-paper. Clean interior. The near fine dustwrapper is a beautiful example with no tears, wear or pieces missing. It has just the merest hint of rubbing (hardly worth mentioning) at the tip and tail of the spine. On Time Magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923; named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century and a cornerstone of twentieth-century British fiction. The basis for the 1971 movie of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick with Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates and Warren Clarke. The author thought the film was a masterpiece but resented having to defend the film on television and in print as it was not his own work. Burgess gave the movie a positive review for the Listener after the film went on general release in January 1972: "technically brilliant, thoughtful, relevant, poetic, mind-opening. It was possible for me to see the work as a radical remaking of my own novel, not as a mere interpretation, and this feeling that it was no impertinence to blazon it as Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange is the best tribute I can pay to the Kubrickian mastery". Photographs/scans available upon request.

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him.