A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess |

In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends' intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition, and Burgess's introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked, Review Quotes:A terrifying and marvelous book.--Roald DahlReview Quotes:A very funny book.--William S. BurroughsReview Quotes:A fine farrago of outrageousness.... If you don't take to it all, then I can't resist calling you a starry ptitsa who can't viddy a horrorshow veshch when it's in front of your glazzies. And yarbles to you.--Kingsley AmisReview Quotes:A nasty little shocker.--Times Literary SupplementReview Quotes:All Mr. B