NOSHA's Banned Books Club - A Clockwork Orange (1962) by Anthony Burgess

** Read the Post-1986 Edition! **

In 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.

Important: The full book as written by Burgess has 21 chapters. At American publishers' insistence, the final chapter of the novel was omitted from U.S. editions published before 1986. Be sure to get a later edition that includes the 21st chapter. **

Challenged for: sexual violence, objectionable language