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VERY FINE. Sealed without any flaws. Signed Limited Artist Edition. Personally signed by the artist Jim Burns. LIMITED TO ONLY 1,000 PRODUCED. Suntup Editions 2021. George Orwell. "1984" SIGNED ARTIST EDITION , limited to only 1,000 copies produced. Sealed without any flaws. Please note that these signed artist editions are not numbered. Sealed. Very Fine and new without any flaws. ARTIST GIFT EDITION. 6 x 9 trim size. Limited to 1000 copies. Introduction by New York Times bestselling author, Joe Hill. Full cloth, smyth-sewn binding. Two hits foil stamping over cloth boards. Paper endsheets. Seventeen full color illustrations by Hugo Award winning artist, Jim Burns. Signed by Jim Burns. Housed in a unique die cut silver paper covered slipcase. Bookmark with all orders. ABOUT- Originally published on June 8, 1949, George Orwell s 1984 is a dystopian masterpiece of tremendous influence and enduring relevance. Orwell s nightmare vision for 1984 is of a totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and the Thought Police, which persecute independent thinking. Orwell s world is one in which the news is manufactured by the authorities, no one is free, and individuality is obsolete. 1984 was the ninth and final book George Orwell completed in his lifetime. Parallels have been drawn between its subject matter and real-life instances of totalitarianism, communism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression. The novel uses several terms that have entered common usage in the English language including Big Brother, doublethink and thoughtcrime. American literary critic Lionel Trilling said of Orwell s classic, 1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present. The novel has been included in Time magazine s 100 Best English-Language Novels, the Modern Library s 100 Best Novels, and on the BBC s list of the 100 Most Influential Novels. On January 25, 2017, the book broke new ground when it suddenly appeared at the #1 spot on Amazon s bestseller list, an unheard-of occurrence for a book published 68 years prior. Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell s novel remains an urgent call to become aware of the assaults on our personal freedoms, and to defend humankind s most precious right: the freedom to have our own thoughts. George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. As a writer, Orwell produced literary criticism and poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936 1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics and literature, language and culture. In 2008, The Times ranked George Orwell second among "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian" describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Two Minutes Hate", "Room 101", "memory hole", "Newspeak", "doublethink", "unperson", and "thoughtcrime", as well as providing direct inspiration for the neologism "groupthink". Seller Inventory # 93-107
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