Nineteen Eighty-Four.
"It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. Big Brother is Watching you, the caption beneath it ran": First Edition of George Orwell's Classic Nineteen Eighty-Four; Finely Bound
Nineteen Eighty-Four.
ORWELL, George.
Item Number: 136365
London: Secker & Warburg, 1949.
First edition of Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. Octavo, bound in full leather by Exeter Bookbinders in a limited edition binding with a striking glass eye onlay and three titanium skull-shaped buttons to the front panel, pictorial endpapers with a collage of George Orwell’s eyes. In fine condition.
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.
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