A Clockwork Orange
Author:
Anthony Burgess
Publisher:
Penguin Books
ISBN:
9780241951446
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Format:
Pocket Book
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Publishing Date:
2011
Number of Pages:
140
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Language:
English
Condition:
New
"What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence."
In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?
Social prophecy? Black comedy? A study of free will? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates "nadsat", the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.