1984: 75th Anniversary

This book is hands down one of my favorite books of all time and is truly the definition of a classic. The story can easily be applied to the world we live in today. Now as for this hardcover its just okay.. I noticed that there was a slight curvature to the front cover (picture attached), however it doesn't seem anything of concern for most part and is probably due to amazons warehouse workers being careless as usual with their handling of customers items (amazon please fix this ever growing issue) and not the result of the publisher. The dust cover is simple and gets the job done, I feel that a little more effort could have been put in for a classic such as this.. especially since its a 75th anniversary.. The paper used is nice and the words are printed clearly unlike the paperback.. which I will get to in a moment. The spacing between words makes it easy to read and is the perfect font size in my opinion. The paperback is seriously lacking in quality from pages having very faded text, poor paper choice, and very very bad binding. The pages started to separate from the binding after getting halfway through the book and was quite frustrating to see as I was incredibly careful with the book. So do yourself a favor and pay the extra for the hardcover.. you'll thank me later. Overall its a decent hardcover for the price but as always expect minor blemishes due to mishandling and disrespectful warehouse workers.

Eye opening of what’s to come.

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Literature classic, hardcover copy, perfect for bookshelf/posterity.

Comparisons between Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR and Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD are so common in literary circles that they have become somewhat of a joke. Especially when you consider that neither of these books was the first in the genre; while Huxley predated Orwell by seventeen years, somehow Zamyatin's WE, written a decade before BNW, often gets left out of the discussion (in fact it has been some time since I read WE, and I read two different translations, so I would need to tackle it again to review it properly). And there are other novels in this genre that are worthy of consideration, such as Levin's THIS PERFECT DAY and Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451. But at the end of the day, when it comes to the ultimate dystopia, it is Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR that emerges as the absolute expression of the genre in all its nightmarish vividness. London, 1984 (Or is it? Nothing is certain in this book). We are introduced to Winston Smith, a clerical worker for the ruling body, an entity known only as "the Party" and represented by posters of a Stalin-like figure known only as "Big Brother" and the slogan "Big Brother Is Watching You." Which is literally true: everyone's apartment is equipped with a two-way television ("telescreen") that sees and hears absolutely everything, from eating to sleep to sex, and which can be turned down but not off. Winston's job sums up the Party pretty well: it is his task to process changes to newspapers, history books, magazines, any form of literature so that the present will match up with the past. In short, it is his function to completely obliterate history on a daily basis. The world is divided into three primary "provinces:" Oceania (in which London is located and which oddly appears to include the United States), Eurasia, and Eastasia. There is always a war going on between Oceania and one of the other two, but it is subject to change on a dime, and when it does, Winston and his team must scramble to change all records to make them state that Oceania has ALWAYS been at war with whichever one happens to be the enemy at the moment. It is instructive that Winston performs his duties at a place called the Ministry of Truth, which is in fact dedicated to falsification of everything from history books to television shows. There are two other Ministries: The Ministry of Peace, which is concerned with war, and the Ministry of Love, which is concerned with horrors that I will not reveal here. Speaking of love, this is where comparisons with Huxley actually have some merit. Both novels have removed all meaning from the sex act. But Huxley does it by making promiscuity the order of the day and making any feelings deeper than the basic tactile sexual sensations deviant, unnatural, and anti-social. Orwell does it by making sex a crime except for the necessity of procreation and in his world pleasure for the woman is the unnatural thing. Winston has a wife (who left him some time earlier), but the descriptions of their couplings are bone-chilling: a dedicated Party member, his wife hated sex but insisted that they do it once a week to make a baby, calling it (God help us all) "Our duty to the Party." Winston's relief at her departure is almost palpable even though we only hear about it as a past event. Slogans abound in Orwell's world. The three primary ones are WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, all of which eerily recall the words that greeted the prisoners arriving at Auschwitz: ARBECHT MACHT FREI (literally "Work Makes One Free" but more accurately "Freedom Through Work"). Orwell does not limit his inspirations to Nazi Germany, though: I have already mentioned the resemblance between the mythical "Big Brother" and Josef Stalin; his characters address each other as "comrade" and there is mention made on more than one occasion of work camps that sound more like Siberia than WWII Germany. Orwell was an unremitting pessimist. The plot of his novel is so simple it is almost predictable: Winston is an unhappy member of the Party, and unhappy people sooner or later do something rebellious. Winston rebels, with a young woman named Julia, and there follows a brief period where things appear to be hopeful, but eventually the hammer falls, and the ending is almost preordained. Which brings us to the one other valid comparison to Huxley; in BNW, London is a city so sterile you could probably eat off the floors. NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, on the other hand, is so grimy that you almost want to wash your hands after reading it. The only other novel I can think of that presents the reader with such an unrelentingly gritty vision of the future is Harry Harrison's MAKE ROOM! MAKE ROOM!, the inspiration for the film SOYLENT GREEN. There are a lot of futuristic dystopias out there, and they tend to share various features: the genre is a narrow one, rather like horror and science fiction, and some crossover is inevitable. But NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR stands out, somehow, above all the others; it has a grim resonance that is not only rather depressing but one gets the feeling that his vision is not in the least bit impossible and that we would do well to take care that we do not end up in Oceania.

Increíble ambientación, y gran historia. Deberían hacerle una película o serie. El personaje principal, Mrs Smith, encaja perfectamente con el ambiente.

Great book, a must read! The cover really fits with the theme of the book and looks great on the shelf

All in order.

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Chegou atrasado, mas chegou. O livro é perfeito. Esse livro é excelente para quem está aprendendo inglês.