Nineteen Eighty-Four
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a rain-soaked, bombed-out London that never recovered from a global war, Winston Smith — a low-ranking Party functionary — secretly nurtures a dangerous and forbidden desire: to think for himself. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four chronicles Winston's harrowing existence under the omnipresent gaze of Big Brother and the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, where history is rewritten daily, language is weaponised, and even a private thought constitutes a crime punishable by death. Against this suffocating backdrop, Winston embarks on a doomed love affair and a clandestine rebellion that pits one fragile human consciousness against the full, crushing machinery of authoritarian power. Published in 1949, Nineteen Eighty-Four stands as one of the most prophetic and formally dazzling works of the twentieth century, cementing Orwell's status as a titan of political literature. With cold, precise prose, Orwell illustrates how power corrupts not merely institutions but the very fabric of reality — coining concepts such as doublethink, Newspeak, and the Thought Police that have since passed into the permanent vocabulary of civilisation. The novel's enduring resonance lies in its chilling argument that the most effective tyranny is one that dismantles the capacity to imagine an alternative — a question it leaves burning in the reader's mind long after the final page is turned.
Author: George Orwell
Format: Paperback
Published: 1956, Penguin Books
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a rain-soaked, bombed-out London that never recovered from a global war, Winston Smith — a low-ranking Party functionary — secretly nurtures a dangerous and forbidden desire: to think for himself. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four chronicles Winston's harrowing existence under the omnipresent gaze of Big Brother and the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, where history is rewritten daily, language is weaponised, and even a private thought constitutes a crime punishable by death. Against this suffocating backdrop, Winston embarks on a doomed love affair and a clandestine rebellion that pits one fragile human consciousness against the full, crushing machinery of authoritarian power. Published in 1949, Nineteen Eighty-Four stands as one of the most prophetic and formally dazzling works of the twentieth century, cementing Orwell's status as a titan of political literature. With cold, precise prose, Orwell illustrates how power corrupts not merely institutions but the very fabric of reality — coining concepts such as doublethink, Newspeak, and the Thought Police that have since passed into the permanent vocabulary of civilisation. The novel's enduring resonance lies in its chilling argument that the most effective tyranny is one that dismantles the capacity to imagine an alternative — a question it leaves burning in the reader's mind long after the final page is turned.