 Needing money and thinking that the publisher was "being charitable in accepting the work at all," Burgess accepted the deal and allowed "A Clockwork Orange" to be published in the US with the twenty-first chapter omitted.Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" was based on the American edition, and thus helped to perpetuate the loss of the last chapter.In Martin Seymour-Smith's "Novels and Novelists