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  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143566496
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 356
  • RRP: $15.99

1984




In the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to appease the needs of the Party.

In the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to appease the needs of the Party. Inwardly, he rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the watchful eye of Big Brother. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with Julia. Awakening to new possibilities, Winston begins to question the party. But what is the price of freedom?

  • Published: 29 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143566496
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 356
  • RRP: $15.99

About the author

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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Praise for 1984

Orwell remains the most indispensable English writer of his period

Observer

Matchlessly sharp and fresh... The clearest and most compelling English prose style this century

John Carey, Sunday Times

Many writers and journalists have tried to imitate his particular kind of clarity without possessing anything like his moral authority

Peter Ackroyd, The Times