Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

Donald W. Nichol (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1962

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Metafiction
Novel
Utopian / Dystopian

Resources

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) wrote A Clockwork Orange shortly after his “terminal” year when he produced a spate of novels in the belief that he would die shortly from a brain tumour. The year passed, and he lived. A Clockwork Orange was published in London by William Heinemann in May 1962, following One Hand Clapping (1961) and preceding The Wanting Seed (1962), a similarly grim dystopian novel. Soon after its British release, A Clockwork Orange was published in a truncated version by W. W. Norton in the USA. It has been reprinted dozens of times, thanks in large part to the controversial film which was released in 1971. In 2010 Penguin reprinted it as part of its Modern Classics series and Random H…

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Citation: Nichol, Donald W.. "A Clockwork Orange". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 July 2011 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7225, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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