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| | A Clockwork Orange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Burgess wrote in his later introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked", that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil." | | | It serves two functions: firstly, Burgess, while wanting to provide his young characters with their own register, did not want to use contemporary slang, fearing that this would "date" the book too much. | | | Because in A Clockwork Orange, the author F. Alexander wrote a book entitled A Clockwork Orange and it is his wife who is attacked by the droogs, it seems likely Burgess directly inserted some of his own feelings and characteristics into the novel in the form of this character. |
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Anthony Burgess |
| | Burgess published well over 50 books covering a wide range of subject matter, including mainstream fiction such as the Enderby tetralogy (about a reclusive poet), dystopian science fiction such as The Wanting Seed, and the guides to James Joyce, Here Comes Everybody (aka Re Joyce) and Joysprick. | | | A lifelong heavy smoker, Burgess returned to Twickenham, an outer suburb of London, England, where he owned a house, to die of lung cancer in 1993. | | | He was polyglot, with a command of Malay, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Welsh in addition to his native English, as well as some Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Swedish and Persian. |
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| | Anthony Burgess - definition of Anthony Burgess in Encyclopedia |
| | In a prolific writing career he published over 50 books covering a wide range of subject matter, including mainstream fiction such as the Enderby trilogy (about a reclusive poet), dystopian science fiction such as The Wanting Seed, and a guide to James Joyce, Here Comes Everybody. | | | Instead he was raised by his aunt and later his stepmother. | | | Burgess was schooled at Xaverian College and later took a degree in English at Manchester University. |
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| | It also drops the glossary and adds a new forward in which the author argues that the movie (which follows the older American edition) is not his preferred ending. | | | I presume it’s accurate since Burgess and Reginald are the same person. | | | BURGESS, ANTHONY; pseudonym of John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (1917-1993) (stories) (assoc.) |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Anthony Burgess |
| | He was called up to the armed forces, and spent most of the war as an education officer, latterly in Gibraltar, an experience which formed the basis of his first novel, A Vision of Battlements, which was not published until 1965. | | | Burgess – his full name was John Anthony Burgess Wilson – became a professional writer rather late in life, having pursued a career in education after demobilisation. | | | Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917, the son of a music hall artiste and a cinema pianist. |
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