a clockwork orange
a vicious fifteen year old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic whose stark terror was captured in stanley kubricks magnificent film of the same title . in anthony burgesss 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 . when the state undertakes to reform alex to redeem him the novel asks at what cost this edition includes the controversial last chapter not published in the first edition and burgesss introduction a clockwork orange resucked .
presents burgess satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence and includes the final chapter deleted from the first american edition .