# 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
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-144-6
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2011-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'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.