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1984

Introduction by Julian Symons

George Orwell Julian Symons

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Everyman's Library USA
01 September 1998
One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell’s cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before.

Winston Smith spends his days rewriting history to fit the narrative that his government wants citizens to believe. But as the gap between the propaganda he writes and the reality he lives proves too much for Winston to swallow, he begins to seek some form of escape. His desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, tyrannical state illuminates the tendencies apparent in every modern society, and makes vivid the universal predicament of the individual.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.

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Imprint:   Everyman's Library USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 211mm,  Width: 133mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   516g
ISBN:   9780679417392
ISBN 10:   0679417397
Series:   Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Pages:   325
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for 1984: Introduction by Julian Symons

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre...It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle. -New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell's theory of power is developed brilliantly. -The New Yorker A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin...Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. -V. S. Pritchett Orwell's novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. -Saturday Review -Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre...It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle.- -New York Herald Tribune-A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell's theory of power is developed brilliantly.- -The New Yorker-A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin...Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down.- -V. S. Pritchett -Orwell's novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one.- -Saturday Review Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle. New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book Orwell s theory of power is developed brilliantly. The New Yorker A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. V. S. Pritchett Orwell s novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. Saturday Review Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle. New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book Orwell s theory of power is developed brilliantly. The New Yorker A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. V. S. Pritchett Orwell s novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. Saturday Review Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre...It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle. - New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell's theory of power is developed brilliantly. - The New Yorker A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin...Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. -V. S. Pritchett Orwell's novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. - Saturday Review Nineteen Eighty-Four is a remarkable book; as a virtuoso literary performance it has a sustained brilliance that has rarely been matched in other works of its genre...It is as timely as the label on a poison bottle. - New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell's theory of power is developed brilliantly. - The New Yorker A book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin...Such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing, and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down. -V. S. Pritchett Orwell's novel escorts us so quietly, so directly, and so dramatically from our own day to the fate which may be ours in the future, that the experience is a blood-chilling one. - Saturday Review


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