Nineteen Eighty-Four Paperback / softback
by George Orwell
Edited by John (Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature, University of York) Bowen
Part of the Oxford World's Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.' 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death.
It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period, and has been a huge international bestseller over many decades.
Continually in print, it has long been controversial, both in its immediate Cold War context and in later history. It is in some ways a realist novel, but in others is more akin to a work of science fiction, a dystopia or a satire.
It also has strong affiliations to Gothic in its plotting, motifs and affective states.
Full of horror and terror, it contains prophetic dreams and a central character who thinks of himself as a 'monster', a 'ghost' and 'already dead'.
Like Frankenstein and Dracula, it is fascinated by the power of a documentary remnant addressed to an unknown reader.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/2021
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- ISBN:9780198829195
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Information
-
Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:28/01/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780198829195
