An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nineteen eighty-four

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Cover of: Nineteen eighty-four by by George Orwell ; with a foreword by Thomas Pynchon ; with an afterword by Erich Fromm.
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An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nineteen eighty-four

a novel

Centennial ed.

by

  • ★★★★ 4.28 ·
  • 264 Ratings
  • 3660 Want to read
  • 243 Currently reading
  • 531 Have read

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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Plume
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English
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339

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Edition Notes

"A Plume Harcourt Brace book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-339).

Other Titles
1984, 1984.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6029.R8 N647 2003, PR6029.R8N647 2003

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Pagination
xxvi, 339 p. ;
Number of pages
339

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OL26224448M
ISBN 10
0452284236
LCCN
2003273412
OCLC/WorldCat
52187275
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5471

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