April 12, 2024
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE BY ANTHONY BURGESS FOLIO SOCIETY SEALED MINT 2014
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The Folio Society, UK, 2014. Hardcover, Slipcased. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None issued. Ben Jones (illustrator). 1st Edition. Slipcased. SEALED This edition follows the restored text of 2012, which includes the 21st chapter excluded from early US editions of the book. Also featured here is an expanded glossary, compiled with reference to Burgess’s handwritten notes and letters to his editors. Comprehensive notes from Burgess’s biographer Andrew Biswell explore allusions in the text, including references to the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The binding simulates alligator skin, while Ben Jones’s sinister collage illustrations are reminiscent of cautionary fairy tales.Bound in textured paper, blocked with a design by Ben JonesSet in Bembo with Shelton Slab display 240 pages; frontispiece and 6 colour illustrations9½" x 6½" Anthony Burgess' nightmare vision of a society overrun by nihilistic violence and governed by a menacing totalitarian state, "A Clockwork Orange" includes an introduction by Blake Morrison in "Penguin Modern Classics". Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations
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