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A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Essentials) Book

Fifteen-year-old Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill?Read More

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  • Foyles

    The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully reimaginedas part of the Penguin Essentials series'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out________________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.________________'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language'Daily Telegraph'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language . . . a very funny book' William S. Burroughs'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation'The Times

  • Play

    '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? Study of freewill? "A Clockwork Orange" is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat' the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

  • BookDepository

    A Clockwork Orange : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780241951446 : : 16 Jun 2011 : Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends who 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?

  • 0241951445
  • 9780241951446
  • Anthony Burgess
  • 7 April 2011
  • Penguin
  • Mass Market Paperback (Book)
  • 144
  • 01
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