Anthony Burgess might be thought of as more of a dabbler in invented literary languages than the glossopoia demonstrated by a Tolkien or a Le Guin. This is despite that fact that his one foray into a novel written in an invented language, A Clockwork Orange, remains his most successful work almost three decades after his death, as it was throughout his life. After all, he never repeated the linguistic experiment of ACO, except in terms of its cultural proliferation, as stageplay, movie, or musical.