Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by Orwell, George - 1949

EB: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1949. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1949. 314 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Red First-issue, dust jacket with the price of $3.00 at the top of the inside front flap. The DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spined faded, light chipping to the spine ends. Bound in finely woven beige cloth and stamped brightly in red and black on the front boards and along the spine. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...Nineteen Eighty-Four, sometimes published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) , a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or Ingsoc in the government's invented language, Newspeak) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimes". The tyranny is epitomized by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their oppressive rule in the name of a supposed greater good. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue) , which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to rewrite past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party line. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. EB; 8.1 X 5.7 X 1.0 inches; 314 pages .