Paperback, 311 pages
Published July 3rd 2008 by Penguin Books (first published April 8th 1949)
Original Title:Nineteen Eighty-Four
ISBN:141036141 , (ISBN13: 2147483647)
'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101 . . . Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.
Oh my God. I got the chills so many times toward the end of this book. It completely blew my mind. It managed to surpass my high expectations AND be nothing at all like I expected.
2023-07-16
This was the book that started my love affair with the dystopian genre. And maybe indirectly influenced my decision to do a politics degree.
2023-07-16
1984 is not a particularly good novel, but it is a very good essay.
2023-07-16