George Orwell's masterwork now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed
by Coralie Bickford-Smith 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.
