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Nineteen Eighty-Four Mass market paperbound - 1950
by George Orwell
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- Title Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Author George Orwell
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Condition Used - Good
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Publication date July 1, 1950
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4284370-6
- ISBN 9780451514745 / 0451514742
- Age range 12 to UP years
- Grade levels 7 - UP
- Reading level 900
- Category Children's 12-Up - Literature - Classics
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 2
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Summary
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.
Reader reviews for Nineteen Eighty-Four
Review summary
Readers broadly hail the novel as a cornerstone of dystopian fiction—chilling, intellectually bracing, and eerily relevant. They praise its world-building, the invention of Newspeak and doublethink, and its stark portrait of surveillance, propaganda, and truth’s erasure. Many describe a powerful emotional impact and long aftershocks, with some calling it essential reading. Reservations center on thin characterizations, a didactic tone, and the slog of the inserted political treatise (“Goldstein’s book”); a few note misogynistic undertones and find stretches dull or heavy. Despite these critiques, the consensus frames it as a timeless, unsettling, and important warning.
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