Description

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

This illustrated edition is a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 1949 UK edition. Orwell’s novel came out in 1949, a year before his death, the grim culmination to a campaigning career, a reaction against the worst legacy left by the 1930s – the modern fascist state. Orwell set the story in a future Britain where Big Brother controls everything, including language itself. The book’s greatest horror is ‘Newspeak’, the state’s spin-doctor code, designed not just to advance the Party but make all other forms of speech impossible. Though 1984 passed without global war, the book stays wise and topical. This desirable edition acknowledges its classic status. A beautifully bound and presented example of George Orwell’s classic and one of the key modern first editions of the last century.

Features;

• Publisher Secker and Warburg, London; 1949
• Blue Cloth Hardback, 247pp
• Illustrated by Alex Williamson
• Size 255 x 200mm , 1.25kg

Condition: Very Good – Unclipped Dust Jacket has Small Tear, No Inscriptions, Very Good Copy