num_pages: 188
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: Dr Brodsky, Georgie, Alex Jacobi, Dim, Pete
genres: Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Crime, Modern Classics, Horror, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 694779
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company