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Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is set in a dystopian future where totalitarianism reigns supreme. The story follows Winston Smith, a Party member who begins to question the oppressive regime and its practice of constant surveillance and thought control. As he seeks truth and freedom, Winston navigates a world where individuality is crushed under the weight of political ideology.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four is Orwell's masterwork, presented here in a stunning Clothbound Classics edition for the first time.

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, the 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.

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241453513

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 January 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 136.0mm

Height: 206.0mm

Weight: 485g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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