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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

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A Clockwork Orange Quotes
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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 film about a violent gang of teenagers in a futuristic Britain, whose leader is captured and given aversion therapy to combat his violent tendencies. Written and directed by Stanley Kubrick , based on the novel by Anthony...


Author Biography

Name: Anthony Burgess
Birth Date: February 25, 1917
Death Date: November 25, 1993
Place of Birth: Manchester, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, author, novelist

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Biography of Anthony Burgess
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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was one of the most prolific literary figures of the 20th century, producing a large number of novels, plays, biographies, screenplays, criticism, and articles. John Anthony Burgess Wilson was born on February 25, 1917, in Man...
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Biography of Anthony Burgess
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Widely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers in English, Anthony Burgess began his long and prolific literary career while living in Malaya during the late 1950s. In 1949 he had written a fictional account of his wartime experience...
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Biography of Anthony Burgess
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Widely regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers in English, Anthony Burgess began his long and prolific literary career while living in Malaya during the late 1950s. In 1949 he had written a fictional account of his wartime experience...
 


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A Clockwork Orange Summary
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A Clockwork Orange is one of the finest sociological and science fiction films ever made. With its highly stylized and often comic violence, its over-the-top set decoration, and its unlikeable protagonist, the film has exerted a wide-ranging influence...
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A Clockwork Orange Information
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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 crime-drama-thriller film adaptation of a 1962 novel of the same name, by Anthony Burgess. The adaptation was produced, written and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It stars Malcolm McDowell as the charismatic and psychopathic...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Clockwork orange
04/06/2003: 679 words, approx. 2 pages
Clockwork orange By JEFF POTRYKUS jpotrykus@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Sunday, April 6, 2003 New Orleans -- Venerable Jim Boeheim has guided a ridiculously young Syracuse team to a destination few thought possible when the college basketball season opened in November: the NCAA...
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Clockwork Orange
04/08/2003: 838 words, approx. 3 pages
JOHN ROWE, STAFF WRITER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-08-2003 CLOCKWORK ORANGE -- Syracuse hangs on in the final seconds By JOHN ROWE, STAFF WRITER Date: 04-08-2003, Tuesday Section: SPORTS Edtion: Late Edition NEW ORLEANS -- This was Carmelo Anthony's parting...
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MySpace page may have been suspect's
6/8/2007: 368 words, approx. 1 pages
Amid mentions of family, a love of fast cars and interests in reading and painting, a MySpace page that appears to be that of a man accused of kidnapping and killing a teenager contains some bizarre references that turn more disturbing in light of the...
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1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 496 words, approx. 2 pages
The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Vivian C. Sobchack
4,973 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Sobchack explores Kubrick's use of décor to emphasize the theme of violence in A Clockwork Orange.
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
525 words, approx. 2 pages
In one way Stanley Kubrick's [A Clockwork Orange] is cheering. This time, as in all his work before 2001, he sticks to a narrative, depicts character, opts for "literary humanism"—does all the things that some critics claimed he had deliberately abandoned, in the space picture, for a new esthetics. Perhaps the new esthetics was only a wobble? Revised editions of various pronunciamentos may now be in order. But there isn't a great deal more to celebrate in A Clockwork Orang...
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Critical Essay by Paul D. Zimmerman
346 words, approx. 1 pages
[At] its most profound level, "A Clockwork Orange" is an odyssey of the human personality, a statement on what it is to be fully human. Alex's adventures are, in one sense, the adventures of the id itself. Alex embodies all of man's anarchic impulses. Shorn of his individuality in the penitentiary and of his fantasy life in the conditioning program, he ceases to be a human being in any real sense. His resurrection at the end, as he regains his ability to act out his lusts and agg...
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A Clockwork Orange
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A plot summary of the novel "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess. The story is about amoral and criminal British youth and society's attempts to bring them under control. As its core, the book is a tale about the morality of free will.
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A Clockwork Orange
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Essay provides a short analysis for "A ClockWork Orange."


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