num_pages: 149
description: In Burgess's infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, 15-year-old Alex, a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and so-called 'ultra-violence', leads a small gang of thugs (Pete, Georgie, and Dim), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian друг, "friend", "buddy") on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. The book tells the horrific crime spree of his gang, Alex's jailing for his teenage delinquency, and attempted rehabilitation via a controversial psychological conditioning technique.Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured, contemporary adolescent slang comprising Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.
language: English
title: A Clockwork Orange
titlecomplete: A Clockwork Orange
characters: Pete, Alex Jacobi, Dr Brodsky, Georgie, Dim
genres: Dystopia, Novels, Science Fiction, Crime, Literature, Horror, Classics, British Literature, Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 694645
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: Penguin Books