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'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.' 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.

Book details

• Full title: Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Author: George Orwell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780198829195
• ISBN: 0198829191
• ID: 33076217
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 216 g
• Dimensions: 130 × 196 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. January 2021

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