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Nineteen Eighty-Four (Paperback)

by George Orwell (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (3 Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141036141
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141036144
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 895 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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His final masterpiece. Enthralling and indispensible for understanding modern history (Timothy Garton Ash )

Right up there among my favourite books … I read it again and again (Margaret Atwood )

More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of (Jo Brand )

One of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century (Margaret Drabble )

The book of the twentieth century (Ben Pimlott )


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Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent – even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101 … Nineteen Eight-Four is George Orwell’s terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 1984, 7 April 2009
By V. streymoy (The Faroe Islands) - See all my reviews
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Once you start reading the first page you can not put this book down. The vivid storytelliTng of a tightly surveilled society with no room for indivdualism is actually really scary. All events of the world are distorted into a perverted edition which serves the government the best and human needs such as love or privacy are forbidden.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book is still relevant to current times ..., 5 Feb 2009
By D. V. Short "Enzo Short" (Orkney, UK) - See all my reviews
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As the first reviewer said, this book is still relevant to current times, riveting and utterly terrifying ...
I'm amazed that there are so few reviews about this classic book. Perhaps people don't believe Big Brother is watching them.

The other relevant classic by Orwell is Animal Farm (ISBN: 0141036133)
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Still frightening, 27 Dec 2008
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First published in 1948, this is still relevant, rivetting and utterly terrifying. Orwell's assessment of how power always corrupts may not be subtle but still feels very real. Despite his use of Ingsoc ("English Socialism") this isn't about party politics, and focuses instead on extremity whether right- or left-wing.

But despite the didactic and polemic purpose of the novel, Orwell never falls into the trap of other political commentators: the message doesn't replace the fiction, but is the fiction. Winston Smith, a kind of everyman, is someone we sympathise and empathise with not only because of his rebellion against the system, but because he retains a sense of humanity that has been overwhelmingly lost. Even his slightly feeble bumbling, and satisfaction in his job is spot on: there are no heroes in 1984.

My only slight quibble is that the love affair between Winston and Julia is so conveniently Mills & Boon: she declares her love and that's it, boom, they're in love... However that isn't of course what Orwell is interested in and so we just have to accept it. Given the time in which it was written there is a kind of subversive sensuality about Julia that was perhaps more shocking than it is now. But the betrayal at the end only has its true impact if we believe they really did love (or at least believe they loved).

But small quibble apart, this is a shockingly relevant book. Worth reading alongside very modern writing such as Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story and (more frivolously, but still importantly) Little Brother for a contemporary discussion of the erosion of civil liberties in the name of anti-terrorism.
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