Edition details
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell. Standard version of limited edition. Frontispiece and seven colour illustrations by La Boca. Introduced by Elif Shafak. Book edges all in different colours and printed with a slogan. Endpapers printed with a black and white pattern. Bound in white buckram screen-in red, white and black with a wrap-around image. Red slipcase gilt blocked with title and with a printed lining. 312pp. 25.4x19.1cm.
About the book
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four follows Winston Smith, a minor Party official living under an authoritarian regime that monitors thought, language and personal behaviour. Winston begins secretly questioning the system and pursuing a forbidden relationship with Julia. The novel explores surveillance, censorship, propaganda and the terrifying possibility of political power controlling reality itself. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a totalitarian society in which the state controls language, history and even private thought. The story follows Winston Smith, a man who works for the government rewriting historical records so that the past always agrees with the Party's version of events.
