Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Nineteen eighty-four / 1984 George Orwell ; introduction by Thomas Pynchon ; a note on the text by Peter Davison. - London : Penguin Books, 2000. - xx, 325 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1987.
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.
014118776X (pbk.) 9780141187761
GBA545270 bnb
Totalitarianism--Fiction.
Dystopias.
FIC ORW
Nineteen eighty-four / 1984 George Orwell ; introduction by Thomas Pynchon ; a note on the text by Peter Davison. - London : Penguin Books, 2000. - xx, 325 p. ; 20 cm.
Originally published: London : Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1987.
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.
014118776X (pbk.) 9780141187761
GBA545270 bnb
Totalitarianism--Fiction.
Dystopias.
FIC ORW