A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange is the daring and electrifying book by Anthony Burgess that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
`What`s it going to be then, eh?`
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.
`Every generation should discover this book` Time Out
`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