Modern Classics Nineteen Eighty Four

By - Orwell George

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Penguin Classics, Harmondsworth, 2004

ISBN 10 - 014118776X

ISBN 13 - 9780141187761

Book Status - 2 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Dystopias

Shelf No - 8

Call Number - 823.912 ORW

Physical Description - 325 pages ; 19 cm.

Notes - Includes index

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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.

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