If you want a picture of the future,imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.'1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949),George Orwell's final novel,was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death.It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period,and has been a huge international bestseller over many decades. Continually in print,it has long been controversial,both in its immediate Cold War context and in later history.It is in some ways a realist novel,but in others is more akin to a work of science fiction,a dystopia or a satire. It also has strong affiliations to Gothic in its plotting,motifs and affective states. Full of horror and terror,it contains prophetic dreams and a central character who thinks of himself as a'monster',a'ghost'and'already dead'. Like Frankenstein and Dracula,it is fascinated by the power of a documentary remnant addressed to an unknownreader.
Publisher: Oxford University PressISBN: 9780198829195Weight: 208 gDimensions: 196 x 130 x 14 mm
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