A Clockwork Orange Summary
Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange 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... Read more

Biography EssayWidely 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.... Read more

Anthony Burgess was a British writer of enormous powers and capacity. Starting his writing career at age forty-two, he was still able to create over fifty books of fiction, criticism, essays, and tran... Read more

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... Read more

(This entry was updated by Geoffrey Aggeler (University of Utah) from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 3-35.)The literary career of John Anthony Burgess... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann 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 ... Read more

In the following essay, Sobchack explores Kubrick's use of décor to emphasize the theme of violence in A Clockwork Orange. … The film … manages to make poetry out of doo... Read more

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess is a book that explores the morality of free will. The lead character Alex is a dirty young Malchick (boy that is) who runs around town killing, stealing from, ra... Read more