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1984
  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141036144
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99

1984

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Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101 ...

Nineteen Eight-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.
  • Published: 1 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141036144
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

George Orwell

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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Praise for 1984

Orwell remains the most indispensable English writer of his period

Observer

Matchlessly sharp and fresh... The clearest and most compelling English prose style this century

John Carey, Sunday Times

Many writers and journalists have tried to imitate his particular kind of clarity without possessing anything like his moral authority

Peter Ackroyd, The Times

His final masterpiece. Enthralling and indispensible for understanding modern history

Timothy Garton Ash

Right up there among my favourite books ... I read it again and again

Margaret Atwood

More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of

Jo Brand

One of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century

Margaret Drabble

The book of the twentieth century

Ben Pimlott

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