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A Clockwork Orange

Author: Anthony Burgess and Blake Morrison   Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills.

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Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills.

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In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder - for fun. Alex is jailed for his vicious crimes and the State undertakes to reform him - but how and at what cost?

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Critic Reviews

“A terrifying and marvellous book--Roald Dahl Still delivers the shock of the new ... a red streak of gleeful evil--Martin Amis”

A terrifying and marvellous book—Roald Dahl

Still delivers the shock of the new ... a red streak of gleeful evil—Martin Amis

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About the Author

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. From 1954 to 1960 he was stationed in Malaysia as an education officer - during this time he started writing The Malayan Trilogy. Diagnosed with an unoperable brain tumour in 1959, Burgess became a full-time writer and went on to write a book a year up until his death in 1993. His many works include- The Complete Enderby, Tremor of Intent, The Kingdom of the Wicked and A Clockwork Orange.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Penguin Classics
Published
24th February 2000
Pages
176
ISBN
9780141182605

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