A Clockwork Orange

"A terrifying and marvellous book." -- Roald Dahl "A brilliant novel ... a tour-de-force in nastiness, an inventive primer in total violence, a savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds." -- The New York Times "I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language as Mr Burgess has done here - the fact that this is also a very funny book may pass unnoticed." William Burroughs "Burgess's dystopian fantasy still fascinates as it clocks up 50 years" The Times "The 50th anniversary of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is celebrated this weekend with the publication of a handsome new hardback edition (the edges of its paper are orange!) by Random House (GBP20). It is compiled and edited by Andrew Biswell - Burgess's biographer - and has a foreword by Martin Amis, as well as unpublished material including a 1972 interview with Burgess, the prologue to his 1986 A Clockwork Orange: A Play With Music, and his annotated 1961 typescript of the novel, complete with his doodles in the margins. His picture of an orange with a spring poking out of it is particularly special" Independent