Nineteen Eighty Four

Nineteen Eighty Four - Paperback

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Nineteen Eighty Four

Nineteen Eighty Four - Paperback

$21.34

ISBN: 9780198829195

Book details

Format
Paperback
Language
ENG- English
Audience
Adults
Genre
Literature
4 in stock

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by Orwell (Author)

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

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.

Author Biography


George Orwell

John Bowen is a Professor of English at the University of York. He has written widely on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century literature; his publications include Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (OUP, 2000) and editions of Barnaby Rudge for Penguin and Trollope's Barchester Towers and Phineas Redux for Oxford World's Classics.
Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.57 x 7.82 x 5.29 IN
Publication Date: October 24, 2022