Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Essentials)

George Orwell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141036141 ISBN 13: 9780141036144

Publisher: Penguin, 2008

Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale

One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party.

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 Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. The novel also coined many new words and phrases which regular appear in popular culture, such as 'Big Brother', 'thoughtcrime', 'doublethink' and 'Newspeak'.

Review:

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 ) --The book of the twentieth century (Ben Pimlott )

Book Description:

George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece - one of the definitive and most influential novels of the nineteenth century. Now available as an unabridged audiobook.