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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? Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. Dazzling and transgressive, this frightening fable about good and evil asks the meaning of human freedom.
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A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- A Clockwork Orange
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anthony Burgess
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1405960965
- ISBN13
- 9781405960960
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Classics, Murders, Society, Gifts for men, England, Great Britain, English Literature, Coming Of Age, Adapted for Film, Dystopia, London, Violence, Teens, Dark, Drugs, Future, Prison, Rape, Manipulation, Experiments (Science), Utopia, Punk, Gangs, Subcultures, Brainwashing, Social Pathology and Deviance, Rioting
- First published
- 1962
- Original title
- A Clockwork Orange
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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? Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. Dazzling and transgressive, this frightening fable about good and evil asks the meaning of human freedom.