1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

By George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke

April, 1984. Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him, and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye. Its ideas have become our ideas, and Orwells fiction is often said to be our reality. The definitive book of the 20th century is re-examined in a radical new adaptation exploring why Orwells vision of the future is as relevant as ever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oberon Books
• Release date: Oct 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781783195602

George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India where his father was a civil servant. After studying at Eton, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma for several years which inspired his first novel, Burmese Days. After two years in Paris, he returned to England to work as a teacher and then in a bookshop. In 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where he was badly wounded. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. A prolific journalist and essayist, Orwell wrote some of the most influential books in English literature, including the dystopian Nineteen Eighty-Four and his political allegory Animal Farm. He died from tuberculosis in 1950.

Reviews for 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

[Tyler William Baird Allen · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Orwell is a favorite author of mine. This book is absolutely brilliant and it is worth reading if you are a fan of dystopic realities.