Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police – the vocabulary of George Orwell’s classic political satire, ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, has passed into the English language, symbolising the horrors of totalitarianism.

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One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’

‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.

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Weight 0.213 kg
Dimensions 18.1 × 11.1 × 2.1 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

355

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.912 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K