A Clockwork Orange

"What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence."

In this nightmare vision of youth 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? A study of free will? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates "nadsat", the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

Author: Anthony Burges

Publisher: Penguin 

Released Date: 2011

ISBN: 9780241951446