Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell [Fine] [Hardcover]

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1984), first edition, first printing. Published by Secker & Warburg, London, 1949 In Royal Green binding, Orwell's ninth and final book. Set in a world of totalitarian governments whose citizens endure constant surveillance and where even one's thoughts can be punished, ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" revolves around protagonist Winston Smith, an otherwise unremarkable worker at the so-called ""Ministry of Truth,"" who secretly dreams of rebellion against the state and its lies. Bound in goat, often referred to as ""Morocco"" and hand tooled with 23 carat gold leaf. Hand-sewn silk headbands with five raised bands to spine and titles to spine labels. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a warning against totalitarianism in any guise, has had a monumental effect on the English language, introducing into common parlance terms such as ""double think"", ""newspeak"", and ""Big Brother"". ""No novel of the past century has had more influence than George Orwell's 1984. The title, the adjectival form of the author's last name, the vocabulary of the all-powerful party. It's almost impossible to talk about propaganda, surveillance, authoritarian politics, or pervasions of truth without dropping a reference to 1984"" (Packer). George Orwell was the pen name of writer Eric Blair (1903-50). Straight out of school (where he studied with Aldous Huxley), Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police, but became disillusioned with their mission and returned to England to pursue writing. The Nineteen Eighty-Four was Orwell's final work, written while the author was sick with tuberculosis and published just six months before his death.