An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

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An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

1984

  • 4.3 (300 ratings) ·
  • 4,283 Want to read
  • 286 Currently reading
  • 609 Have read

"Nineteen Eighty-Four is Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future. Its hero, Winston Smith, is a worker at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies records for the party. Secretly subversive, he and his colleague Julia try to free themselves from political slavery but the price of freedom is betrayal."--Publisher's description.

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Language
English
Pages
314

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1983, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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1977, Follett Bound
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1962-12, New American Library
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949, Harcourt, Brace and Company
hardcover in English - 1949

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Edition Notes

Originally published: Nineteen eighty-four. 1949.

Published in
San Diego, CA, USA
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
1984
Copyright Date
1977

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6029.R8 N49 1984b

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
314 p. ;
Number of pages
314

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3176040M
Internet Archive
198400orwe
ISBN 10
0151660387
LCCN
83018442
OCLC/WorldCat
182872991, 671293779
Paperback Swap
0151660387
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0151660387
Library Thing
1472
Goodreads
1281235

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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