An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

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An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

1984

printing (1)
  • 4.28 ·
  • 264 Ratings
  • 3662 Want to read
  • 242 Currently reading
  • 533 Have read

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controlsthe 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.
--back cover

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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Pages
302

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1984
2017-01-25, Brawtley Press
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1984
2017, Penguin
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1984
2016, Arcturus
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1984
2013, Arcturus
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1984
2006-02, Grupo Editorial Tomo
Rústica in Spanish - Tercera edición
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1992, Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
hardcover in English
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1984
1981, New American Library
mass market paperback in English - printing (64)
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1984
1977, Follett Bound
in English
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1984
1962-12, New American Library
in English
Cover of: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949, Harcourt, Brace and Company
hardcover in English - 1949

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Edition Notes

CAN.

Copyright Date
1949

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
302p.
Number of pages
302

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28372072M
Internet Archive
19840000orwe_y0d7
ISBN 10
0735234612
ISBN 13
9780735234611
OCLC/WorldCat
1007153402
Goodreads
34237100

Work Description

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.



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Novels (Animal Farm / Burmese Days / Clergyman's Daughter / Coming Up for Air / Keep the Aspidistra Flying / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Novels (Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism

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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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