(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
George Orwell
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
Big Brother is watching. The clocks are striking thirteen. In the totalitarian state of Oceania, Winston Smith spends his days rewriting history at the Ministry of Truth and his nights harbouring a forbidden longing for truth and freedom. When he falls in love with Julia and makes contact with what he believes is a secret resistance, he steps into a game whose rules he cannot yet see.
Published in 1949, 1984 gave the world doublethink, Newspeak, and thoughtcrime — words that have entered everyday language because the world they describe has never ceased to feel possible. Readers across generations call it the most disturbing and necessary novel of the twentieth century, one that changes how you understand language, power, and the manipulation of truth. One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped the World.
This Penguin Select Classics edition presents the original, unabridged text in a premium hardbound collector's format with sprayed edges — a book to keep, to give, and to return to.
