EAN: 9780141187761

GEORGE ORWELL - GEBRAUCHT NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR ...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'   'Who controls the past controls the
future: who controls the present controls the past'  Hidden away in the Record Department of
the sprawling Ministry of Truth  Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of
the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in  which demands
absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of
Big Brother  symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty  Smith begins a
secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia  but soon discovers the true price of freedom is
betrayal.  George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece  Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most
pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.

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