Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals
A Clockwork Orange
β Scribed by Burgess, Anthony
- Book ID
- 100559024
- Year
- 1961
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Set in a not-so-distant future society that has a culture of extreme youth violence, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friendsβ social pathology. βA Clockwork Orangeβ is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. When the state undertakes to reform Alexβto βredeemβ himβthe novel asks, βAt what cost?β
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