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  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951446
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

A Clockwork Orange

Restored Edition

  • Anthony Burgess



The daring and electrifying book that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made

'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? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

  • Published: 13 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9780241951446
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $22.99

Praise for A Clockwork Orange

A gruesomely witty cautionary tale

Time

Every generation should discover this book

Time Out

Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language

Daily Telegraph

I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language...a very funny book

William S. Burroughs

One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation

The Times