1984: 75th Anniversary

Orwell's dystopia about a totalitarian superstate where truth is whatever the Party says it is. Winston Smith, a drone at the Ministry of Truth, begins keeping a diary and falls for a woman named Julia. Small acts of rebellion in a world where thoughtcrime itself is a capital offense.

Why This Book Still Hits

Three-quarters of a century later, the vocabulary of 1984 (Big Brother, doublethink, memory hole, Newspeak) has become the vocabulary we reach for whenever we try to describe what's actually happening around us. That's not a coincidence. Orwell wasn't writing science fiction. He was watching the Soviet Union, watching the BBC, watching how language gets bent until people can no longer think straight. The machinery he described in 1949 didn't need the internet to work. It just needed obedience.

About This Edition

This is the Signet mass market paperback, the 75th Anniversary printing. Compact, affordable, and the same unabridged text that's been unsettling readers since the year it was published. If you haven't read it, start here. If you have, you already know why it's worth owning.

Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Signet Book
Format: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 9780451524935