About the Book: A Clockwork Orange
Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis
Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of
friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the
State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean?
A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange
is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its
characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony
Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen