num_pages: 185
description: The only American edition of the cult classic novel. A vicious fifteen-year-old "droog" is the central character of this 1963 classic, whose stark terror was captured in Stanley Kubrick's magnificent film of the same title. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him the novel asks, "At what cost?" This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction "A Clockwork Orange Resucked."
language: English
title: A Clockwork Orange
titlecomplete: A Clockwork Orange
characters: Dim, Alex Jacobi, Pete, Georgie, Dr Brodsky
genres: Crime, Dystopia, British Literature, Modern Classics, Classics, Horror, Novels, Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 694915
places: England
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award
publisher: Buccaneer Books