Nineteen Eighty-Four
By: George Orwell ; with an introduction by Julian Symonds.
Edition: Eighth printing
Series: Everyman's Library, #134
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780679417392
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: Totalitarianism -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: 1984
Description: Nineteen Eighty-Four revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century’s greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith’s desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual.
--front flap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxvii).
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