Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ORWELL (George).

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First edition. 8vo. Original light green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in red, top edge in red, green dust jacket. London, Secker and Warburg. One of the greatest works of British dystopian literature and a terrifying critique of totalitarianism.  Nineteen Eighty-Four was conceived towards the end of the Second World War; during which time Orwell and his wife Eileen lived in a small flat overlooking Senate House where the Ministry of Information was based. Eileen had a job there in the censorship department, and Orwell had spent three years in the business of propaganda and information management at the BBC which was directly answerable to the same department. Senate House and the Ministry of Information was undoubtedly Orwell's model for the Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty Four.  "Winston Smith's London evokes the life of the wartime capital in a general way, with its permanent exhaustion, its rumours and shortages and discomforts and dangers, its curtailments of freedom, and its weak sense of the future." (Kerr). A very good copy, with creasing and chipping to extremities with loss to the top and tail of the spine, cloth a little faded, especially to the spine, otherwise very bright, and clean internally.…

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Title
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Author
ORWELL (George).
Publication year
1949
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

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