George Orwell - Nineteen-Eighty-Four. A Novel
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George Orwell - Nineteen-Eighty-Four. A Novel - Harmondsworth - Penguin Books Ltd. - 1956 - Reprint - [256] pp - Pocketbook - 11 x 18 cm.
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Vintage 1950s paperback edition of the famous masterpiece by George Orwell (= Eric Arthur Blair, 1903-1950); an anti-utopia based on the USSR (and other authoritarian regimes). Text in English. Author photo: Vernon Richards. Series Penguin Books 972.
¶ The first edition of '1984' was published in 1949. Elements of this novel have become mainstream in modern culture (such as 'Big Brother'). The book was made into a film in 1984 starring John Hurt as 'Winston Smith'.