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Scottish Book1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (Paperback)
Author: George Orwell
£7.95
ScotlandPsychological SuspenseUrban Gritty
1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell’s dystopian novel set in a totalitarian state where Big Brother watches all, the Thought Police enforce conformity and protagonist Winston Smith rebels against pervasive surveillance and propaganda. For readers of classic fiction and political dystopia exploring power, control and individual freedom.
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Why we chose this book
We think this remains one of the most powerful warnings about power and control, a story that challenges the reader to face uncomfortable truths about society and self.
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In 1984, war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain has become Airstrip One, ruled by the Party under the gaze of Big Brother. Surveillance reaches into every corner, and the Thought Police exist to crush any trace of independent thought.
Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history with careful hands, day after day. Beneath the surface of his obedience sits a hunger for freedom, and the dangerous idea of rebellion. When he meets Julia, that private longing turns into a secret, forbidden affair.
But secrecy is brittle in a state built to notice everything. Their relationship begins in hope and risk, then tightens into something darker as the world presses in and asks what it will cost to keep hold of the self.
This edition includes an introduction by Alex Massie, reflecting on the importance of Jura to the writing of this twentieth-century work of fiction.
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