'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.'

1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period, and has been a huge international bestseller over many decades. Continually in print, it has long been controversial, both in its immediate Cold War context and in later history.

It is in some ways a realist novel, but in others is more akin to a work of science fiction, a dystopia or a satire. It also has strong affiliations to Gothic in its plotting, motifs and affective states. Full of horror and terror, it contains prophetic dreams and a central character who thinks of himself as a 'monster', a 'ghost' and 'already dead'. Like Frankenstein and Dracula, it is fascinated by the power of a documentary remnant addressed to an unknown reader.

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ISBN/EAN 9780198829195
Author George Orwell
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date 28 Jan 2021
Format Paperback
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Oxford World's Classics)

George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most powerful and widely read of all modern novels. It is also a strange and uncanny book, which has become even more unsettling since its first publication more than seventy years ago.

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