1984

Format:

Book (large print)

Title:

1984

Uniform Title:

Nineteen eighty-four

Author:

Orwell, George, 1903-1950 author

ISBN:

9781432839611

Edition:

Large print edition.

Publication:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2017.

Physical Description:

501 pages (large print) ; 23 cm

Series title(s):

Thorndike Press large print mini-collections.

Summary:

A depiction of life in London in 1984 under a totalitarian regime.

Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.9 17.0 5976.

Accelerated Reader UG 8.9 17 5976.

Subject(s):

Totalitarianism -- Fiction.

Large type books.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Holds:

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Author Notes

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton College for four years. He was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left that position after five years and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books: Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London. He then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, he served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. After the war, he wrote for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune.

His best known works are Animal Farm and 1984. His other works include A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for Air. He died on January 21, 1950 at the age of 46.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Booklist Review

Winston hates the system, hates Big Brother. He knows that his rebellion puts him in terrible danger and that the Thought Police will find him.