Nineteen Eighty-Four

von George Orwell

304 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

'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 unknown reader.

• Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780198829195
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.01.2021
• Größe: 194 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Herausgegeben von: John Bowen