Vintage 1984 George Orwell Paperback Signet Books Rare Big Brother Cover

Description: Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. Through the Ministry of Truth, the Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Review Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre...It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle. New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell s theory of power is developed brilliantly. The New Yorker A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin...Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. V. S. Pritchett Orwell s novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. Saturday Review --Review "Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism." -- AudioFile "Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism." --AudioFile Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre...It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle. New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell s theory of power is developed brilliantly. The New Yorker A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin...Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. V. S. Pritchett Orwell s novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. Saturday Review --Review About the Author George Orwell The son of a Civil servant George Orwell was born in Indian 1903. Orwell served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. George Orwell is most famous for his books Animal Farm (publishe in 1945) and 1984 (published in 1949). He died in London, England in January of 1950. Condition: Pre-Owned Fair

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