W. Ross Macdonald School Library

A Clockwork Orange /

Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993, author.

A Clockwork Orange / Anthony Burgess. - Harmondsworth, U. K. : Penguin, 1979, c1962. - 148 pages ; 18 cm

Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.


Dystopias--Fiction.
Teenagers--Fiction.
Juvenile delinquency--Fiction.--Fiction--Behavior modification


FICTION / Classics.
FICTION / Dystopian.
FICTION / Science Fiction / General.

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