Written by Anthony Burgess

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Publisher: William Heinemann
Pages: 192
Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia, Classics
Published: 1962-01-01
Original Language: English

A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex to "redeem" him, the novel asks, "At what cost?"

Read from 2009-12-21 to 2009-12-29
Read in English
Rating: 4/5
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