Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ORWELL, George.

Item Number: 121899

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.

First American edition of Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Caricature of Orwell on the rear panel by George Holland. A very sharp example.

Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life, the novel is a work “of hectic, devilish, claustrophobic intensity… nightmarish in the telling” (Clute & Nicholls, 896). In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Named as one of Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. “It is quite simply a novel which has changed the world” (Pringle, 100 Best Science Fiction Novels 1). Fenwick A12a. Connolly 99. Anatomy of Wonder II:838. 100 Most Influential Books 93.