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