A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess beaks "The book is funny and

"The book is funny and earnest

He arranges both familiar and unusual garden plants

" So begins one of the most beloved and delightful tales in the English language--Tolkien's prelude to The Lord of the Rings

Written in the tradition of the bestselling If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

potently contemplative

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess beaks "The book is funny andIn Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his 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. This edition includes the