A Clockwork Orange
By: Anthony Burgess
Series: Essential Penguin
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1993?
Place of publication: Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780140274097
Copyright date: printing (48)
Description: In Anthony Burgess's 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?

Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of free will? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new speech for his anti-hero: 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future. Stanley Kubrick's controversial film version of the novel has sealed its reputation as one of the most daring works of fiction this century.
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Notes: Anthony Burgess pseud. van John Burgess Wilson.
1st Penguin ed.: 1972. - Orig. publ.: London : Heinemann, 1962.