1984
By: by George Orwell.
Edition: U.S. Hardcover Large Print Edition
Series: G.K. Hall large print perennial bestseller series
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Thorndike, ME, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780783893686
Copyright date: 1981
Subjects: Totalitarianism -- Fiction.; Large type books.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Nineteen eighty-four
Description: Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing ig, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same...

Written in 1949, this novel was set in the society of the future toward which George Orwell believed both extreme right- and left-wing totalitarianism were heading. In this terrifying society, there is no place for truth. Historical records are destroyed, and propaganda replaces information. Thought and love are punished as crimes. Privacy is both denied and impossible to attain. Placards everywhere warn: "Big Brother is watching you." It is in that setting that Orwell tells the tale of a middle-aged man and a young woman who decide to rebel.
--front flap
Notes: Works by George Orwell (p. 426-428).