ORWELL, George.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four. A Novel. First edition of the author's final book, a warning against totalitarianism in any guise. Its effect on the English language has been remarkable, introducing into common parlance terms such as "doublethink", "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).

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