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1984 (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Signet Classics)
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Product Description FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Portrays a terrifying vision of life in the future when a totalitarian government, considered a ""Negative Utopia,"" watches over all citizens and directs all activities, becoming more powerful as time goes by. Review "Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism." -- AudioFile"Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism." --AudioFile Nineteen Eighty-Four 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. New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell s theory of power is developed brilliantly. The New Yorker 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 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. Saturday Review --Review Nineteen Eighty-Four 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. New York Herald Tribune A profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book...Orwell s theory of power is developed brilliantly. The New Yorker 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 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. Saturday Review --Review About the Author George Orwell The son of a Civil servant George Orwell was born in Indian 1903. Orwell served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. George Orwell is most famous for his books Animal Farm (publishe in 1945) and 1984 (published in 1949). He died in London, England in January of 1950.
