This fully restored critical edition of A Clockwork Orange presents Anthony Burgess’s novel as it was originally written. Fifteen-year-old Alex revels in “ultraviolence,” leading his gang through a dystopian future of crime and cruelty until the State intervenes to enforce his re-education. But what does it mean to strip a human being of choice? Part dystopian horror, part black comedy, the novel is also a triumph of linguistic invention, creating the distinctive teen slang known as Nadsat. Edited by Andrew Biswell with a foreword by Martin Amis, this edition includes a glossary of Nadsat, explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles, and reviews, illuminating the novel’s enduring power and its unsettling vision of freedom, morality, and control.