Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange spawned an underground lexicon that seeped into pop culture and resonates now, writes Arwa Haider, in BBC Culture's new Cult Books series.

Frank Alexander (Patrick Magee) is the first person to see Alex as the mechanical toy he is: the clockwork orange. Wind him up to serve the state, make him jump to oppose it.

New York City, December 1971.A limo pulls up to the pavement outside the Algonquin Hotel. In the back seat is Malcolm McDowell, charismatic enfant terrible of left-field cinema, fresh from playing ...