A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Publisher: Yilin Press

"When you cannot choose, you are no longer human."
A Clockwork Orange is a masterpiece by British author Anthony Burgess, included in Time magazine's "All-Time 100 Novels." With its ingenious imagination, the book explores the collision of freedom and power, shocking the world upon its publication and inspiring Stanley Kubrick's classic film of the same name.
The novel's portrayal of lost youth and its reflection on free will hold epoch-making significance in literary history. "A Clockwork Orange" has also become an important motif ingrained in popular culture.
This new edition of A Clockwork Orange is translated from the uncensored British version, offering a fresh translation that restores a fulfilling reading experience.
Sincerely includes:
 The original typescript of A Clockwork Orange (with author's handwriting)
 Exclusive extended essay from the British 50th-anniversary edition and over 50 original annotations
 The author's precious article reflecting on the novel and film, "A Clockwork Orange Jam"
Alex is a delinquent street youth who commits every kind of evil. Due to a homicide, he is arrested, and the authorities experiment on him with a special method, "reforming" him into someone who experiences immense pain whenever he has violent thoughts. Only able to do good, powerless to do evil, he loses the ability to choose between good and evil, losing his free will. He feels like a clockwork orange…
"Youth always passes, yes. But youth is just like a beast, no, not even like a beast, more like those little toys found everywhere on the streets. Little tin men with clockwork inside, with the winding mechanism exposed, you wind it click-click-click, and let it go, and it runs off, as if it's walking, oh, brother. But it only walks in a straight line, bumping into things, crashing loudly and not turning back, it cannot stop itself. Youth is like this little clockwork machine."

About the Author
Anthony Burgess
Born in Manchester in 1917, educated at Xaverian College and the University of Manchester. He served six years in the military, then taught in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of "The Malayan Trilogy," he became a full-time writer in 1959. His representative works include A Clockwork Orange, Earthly Powers, The Endby Quartet, Shakespeare, 1985, Napoleon Symphony, and others.

Translator:
Du Dong, from Nanjing, Capricorn, a literary translator for ten years, a journalist and author for seven years, and a tourism developer. He has taken many wrong paths in his intellectual wanderings, but still hopes to capture the world in words. Translator of Cees Nooteboom's "Hotel Nooteboom" and author of "Kangba Qingshu."