# A Clockwork Orange

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- Book: [A Clockwork Orange](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange) ([A Clockwork Orange.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess/a-clockwork-orange.md))
- Authors: [Anthony Burgess](https://www.bookquiver.com/anthony-burgess)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-753-1
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2013-12-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'.