The Lost Slang Dictionary for “A Clockwork Orange” Has Been Found

In 1965, author Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) began a massive task: to pen a dictionary for Nadsat, a futuristic slang language he had invented for his 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange. He made it three letters and hundreds of entries in before abandoning the task, and his work seemingly disappeared—until now.

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