Pub Date: April 4, 2017
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Code: 0900
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 1.20" H x 8.30" L x 5.60" W ( 0.90 lbs) 304 pages
Description: With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition.
Brief description:
George Orwell (1903-1950), the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was born in India and educated at Eton. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living by writing. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of 1984 (1949), which brought him worldwide fame.
Review Quotes:
One of the BBC's 100 Novels that Shaped the World "Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power."--The New Yorker "1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present."--Lionel Trilling