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Book Club #1: A Clockwork Orange Book Review

Book Club #1: A Clockwork Orange Book Review

At last, our first book club draws to an end, O my brothers. Better late than never!

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Erik Kain
Jul 06, 2021
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In the forward to A Clockwork Orange, author Anthony Burgess writes a great deal about how his first American publisher only included 20 chapters of the 21-chapter book, leaving out the 21st—which is really an epilogue—because he liked the ending better without it. Director Stanley Kubrick adapted this version of the novel as well. Burgess seems resigne…

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