Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1: Crime and Punishment

2: A History of Violence

3: The Call of the Wild

4: Gentlemen of the West

5: The Trial

6: No Mean City

7: Nineteen Eighty-Four

8: A Question of Loyalties

9: On the Road

10: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

11: A Tale of Two Cities

12: Wuthering Heights

13: The Outsiders

14: The Trick is to Keep Breathing

15: The Cutting Room

16: Great Expectations

17: Children of the Dead End

18: The Stranger

19: Tales From the Mall

20: A Disaffection

21: Garnethill

22: The Way We Live Now

23: Housekeeping

24: Waiting for the Barbarians

25: The Naked Ape

26: The Sound and the Fury

27: Frankenstein

28: Trainspotting

29: The Moral Landscape

30: The Metamorphosis

31: The Changeling

32: Rules For Radicals