A vicious 15 year old droog is the main character in this 1963 classic. In this nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told through the eyes of Alex, who talks in a brutal, invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. It is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes to reform Alex in order to "redeem" him, the novels asks, "At what cost?" This edition even includes the controversial last chapter that was not published in the first edition and Burgess's introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked".
