num_pages: 187
description: 'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture 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? Burgess writes of social prophecy and free will in this black comedy.
language: English
title: A Clockwork Orange
titlecomplete: A Clockwork Orange
characters: Alex Jacobi, Dr Brodsky, Dim, Pete, Georgie
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Modern Classics, British Literature, Horror, Literature, Classics, Novels, Crime, Dystopia
ratings_count: 694865
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: Ballantine Books