Nineteen Eighty-Four
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4.6 • 10 Ratings
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Publisher Description
One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'
'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'
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, 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.
George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Maybe you’ve never read 1984, or maybe it’s been a while. Whatever the case, we can’t think of a better moment to pick up George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a society under absolute government control, where no person or “fact” is free from Big Brother's shadowy manipulations. Orwell’s dark tour de force clearly still resonates—more than 70 years post-publication, 1984 is flying off the shelves.
Customer Reviews
Control & rebellion
A story of control and rebellion, set in London in an alternative 1984. Through the daily experiences and struggles of his protagonist Winston Smith, Orwell explores themes of indoctrination and control - along with their reverse - in this memorable, unsettling work
Modern classic
What a fabulous & insightful novel. Still current to this day more than ever.