Descript |
140 p. 18 cm |
Series |
Penguin essentials
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Penguin essentials
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Note |
Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1962 |
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'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 |
Subject |
Young adult fiction
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Juvenile delinquency -- Fiction
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Classmark |
823/.914
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ISBN/ISSN |
9780241951446 |
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