A Clockwork Burgess by Anthony Burgess - 2000

VERY GOOD condition — Tight binding. Crisp exterior. Clean, unmarked pages. NOTE: Very small nick to back board. Please inspect photos closely for condition details.

This text was featured in the Easton Press series Great Books of the 20th Century. Published in 2000, bound in handsome Brown leather, and beautifully illustrated by Ron Miller, this edition would be a worthy addendum to your collectibles library. Included is an insert of Collector's Notes published by Easton Press.

Specifics of this series from the Easton Press website:

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  Fully and tightly bound in genuine leather.
  22kt gold accents deeply inlaid on the "hubbed" spine.
  Heavy duty binding boards... .
  Superbly printed on acid-neutral paper... .
  Sewn pages – not just glued like ordinary books.
  ...moiré endpages and a satin-ribbon page marker.
  Gilded page ends.

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" 'Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.'

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, 'At what cost?' "

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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was a British writer and composer.

Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, and the opera Carmen, among others. Burgess was nominated and shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973.

Burgess also composed over 250 musical works; he considered himself as much a composer as an author, although he achieved considerably more success in writing.

The above text was taken from, respectively, Penguin Publishing Group (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.