Nineteen Eighty-Four

Pages: 304, Specialty: Classics, Publisher: Oxford University Press, Publication Year: 2021, Cover: Paperback, Dimensions: 130x196x14mm 'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.' 1984 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