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Nineteen eighty-four

Orwell, GeorgePynchon, Thomas(Introduction by)
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'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece,Nineteen Eighty-Fouris perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.

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Penguin
0141919957 / 9780141919959
eBook (EPUB)
823.912
29/01/2004
England
English
Classics
324 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
Quiz No: 202457, Points 17.00, Book Level 8.90,
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Reprint. Cover title: 1984 Description based on print version record. Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.