ORWELL, George.

£10,000 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Nineteen Eighty-Four. First edition, first impression, in the green jacket. Warning against totalitarianism in any guise, Orwell's final book has exerted a monumental impact on political consciousness and on the English language, coining terms such as "double think" 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).The first impression was also issued in red jackets simultaneously; judging from surviving examples, this was done in proportions of about two green to one red.

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