Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange in 1962; it is his best known piece of work. The story is not actually classified as a novel, but is a novella. The language in A clockwork Orange is interesting and symbolic. The older aged characters in the novella speak regular English, but the teens speak an English muddled with Nadsat (meaning teen). Nadsat separates the world of the teen, which is careless and free and des