Almost everything you've read about how Anthony Burgess came to write A Clockwork Orange may be invented - by Burgess himself ...

Author Anthony Burgess was inspired to write the book in order to "exorcise" demons from a traumatic incident that took place nearly 20 years earlier.

Not for the faint of heart, Anthony Burgess’ dystopian novel is set in the not-too-distant future and centers on an extremely violent youth culture and the attempts by the state to control them.

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