{"product_id":"nineteen-eighty-four-book-george-orwell-9781946963451","title":"Nineteen Eighty-Four","description":"\u003cp\u003e2021 Facsimile of the 1949 Edition. \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e, often published as \u003cem\u003e1984\u003c\/em\u003e, is Orwell's famed dystopian novel originally published in 1949 by Secker \u0026amp; Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e is concerned with the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviors within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modeled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It also popularized the term Orwellian as an adjective, with many terms used in the novel entering common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, memory hole, 2 + 2 = 5, proles, Two Minutes Hate, telescreen, and Room 101. \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e included it on its 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was placed on the \u003cem\u003eModern Library's\u003c\/em\u003e 100 Best Novels, reaching No. 13 on the editors' list and No. 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was listed at No. 8 on The Big Read survey by the BC. Parallels have been drawn between the novel's subject matter and real life instances of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression among other themes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReviews: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e 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. -\u003cem\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book.Orwell's theory of power is developed brilliantly. -\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. -\u003cem\u003eSaturday Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52686999716113,"sku":"NLS9781946963451","price":9.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781946963451.jpg?v=1762329414","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/nineteen-eighty-four-book-george-orwell-9781946963451","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}