A Clockwork Orange - Penguin Essentials

The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully reimagined as part of the Penguin Essentials series<BR><BR>'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out<BR> ________________<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR> Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. <BR><BR>Dazzling and transgressive, this frightening fable about good and evil asks the meaning of human freedom.<BR>________________<BR><BR>'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time<BR><BR> '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<BR><BR> 'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language . . . a very funny book' William S. Burroughs<BR><BR> 'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' The Times