Orwell - 1984 / Nineteen Eighty-Four. English Edition

Orwell's classic in a special hardcover edition with silver foil embossing.

London, 1984: Winston Smith, a history falsifier at the Ministry of Truth, falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Julia. Together they begin to question the totalitarian world in which they have functioned until now. George Orwell's vision of a totalitarian state, in which cyber surveillance, historical revisionism and the Thought Police determine the lives of transparent citizens, has only become more urgent to this day.

• »Who controls the past controls the future.« 1984
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• »Alles, was man über Politik wissen muß, steht meiner Ansicht nach bei George Orwell« Harald Martenstein

George Orwell was born in Bengal in 1903. He attended private schools in England, served in the Burmese Imperial Police, worked as a teacher and bookseller's assistant, fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and worked as a freelance writer and journalist. His novels "1984" and "Animal Farm" made him world-famous.