An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nineteen eighty-four

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An edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nineteen eighty-four

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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.



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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Language
English
Pages
460

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1984
2018-09-02, Tian jin ren min chu ban she
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1984
2017-01-25, Brawtley Press
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1984
2016, Arcturus
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1984
2013, Arcturus
Paperback in English
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1984
2006-02, Grupo Editorial Tomo
Rústica in Spanish - Tercera edición
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1992, Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
hardcover in English
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Nineteen eighty-four
1984, Clarendon Press
hardcover in English
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1984
1981, New American Library
mass market paperback in English - printing (64)
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1984
1977, Follett Bound
in English
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1984
1962-12, New American Library
in English
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949, Harcourt, Brace and Company
hardcover in English - 1949

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Edition Notes

Cataloging based on CIP information.
Includes indexes.

Published in
Oxford
Genre
Fiction.
Other Titles
1984.
Copyright Date
1984

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6029.R8 N647 1984, PR6029.R8.N647 1984

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
xi, 460p.
Number of pages
460

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3174961M
Internet Archive
nineteeneightyfo0000orwe_z8u8
ISBN 10
0198185219
LCCN
83017337
Library Thing
1472

Excerpts

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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first sentence

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