Nineteen Eighty-Four
By: by George Orwell ; with a foreword by Thomas Pynchon ; with an afterword by Erich Fromm.
Contributors: Pynchon, Thomas.; Fromm, Erich, 1900-
Edition: 1st Plume printing (Centennial ed.) (1)
Publisher: Plume
Published: 2003 05
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 339
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Totalitarianism -- Fiction.; London (England) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: 1984
Description: The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. the scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called victory Mansions. Science has abandoned Man for the State. As every citizen knows only too well, war is peace.

To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform this life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, "I love you." The other is O'Brien, who tells him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against his own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of mounting drama and suspense.
--front flap
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-339).
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