{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"A Clockwork Orange","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/a-clockwork-orange","description":"Fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends start an evening\u0026#39;s mayhem by hitting an old man, tearing up his books and stripping him of money and clothes.\r\n\r\nOr rather Alex and his three droogs tolchock an old veck, razrez his books, pull off his outer platties and take a malenky bit of cutter.\r\n\r\nFor Alex\u0026#39;s confessions are written in \u0026#39;nadsat\u0026#39; - the teenage argot of a not-too-distant future.\r\n\r\nBecause of his delinquent excesses, Alex is jailed and made subject to \u0026#39;Ludovico\u0026#39;s Technique,\u0026#39; a chilling experiment in Reclamation Treatment...\r\n\r\nHorror farce? Social prophecy? Penetrating study of human choice between good and evil? A Clockwork Orange is all three, dazzling proof of Anthony Burgess\u0026#39;s vast talents.","author_name":"Anthony Burgess","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/anthony-burgess","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/24599945/a18266d2-3500-4641-99b3-035c7dc55d2a.jpg","thumbnail_width":356,"thumbnail_height":600}