By Anthony Burgess
First Published: 1962
Rating: Cultural Masterpiece.
In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder – for fun. In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the A Clockwork Orange evocatively renders Alex 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.