![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He breaks the law by falling in love with Julia and, as part of the clandestine organization the Brotherhood, they attempt the unimaginable – to bring down the Party. It was his last work, written shortly before his death from a tubercular haemorrhage in. Spurred by his longing to escape, Winston rebels. Nineteen-Eighty-Four is a novel published by George Orwell in 1949. Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwells terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. Winston Smith works in the department of propaganda, where his job is to rewrite the past. The country is impoverished and permanently at war, people are watched day and night by Big Brother and their every action and thought is controlled by the Thought Police. This edition features an introduction by writer, journalist and Orwell scholar Dorian Lynskey. These beautiful hardbacks make perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own collection. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. This terrifying dystopia, which he created in a time of great social and political unrest, remains acutely relevant and influential to this day. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most famous and influential novels of the 20th century. ![]()
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