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Orwellian. These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, 1984. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength\". Winston Smith rewrites history for the Ministry of Truth, but when he's handed a note that says simply \"I love you\" by a woman he hardly knows, he decides to risk everything in a search for the real truth. This book is a dramatic adaptation of the classic novel.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Motihari, India, 1903 - Londres, 1950), cuyo nombre real era Eric Blair, fue novelista, ensayista brillante y maestro de periodistas. Podría decirse que su breve vida resume los sueños y las pesadillas del mundo occidental en el siglo XX. Nació en la India británica en el seno de una familia de clase media, estudió con una beca en el exclusivo colegio de Eton, sirvió en la Policía Imperial en ultramar (\u003ci\u003eLos días de Birmania\u003c\/i\u003e, 1934), volvió a Europa, donde vivió a salto de mata (\u003ci\u003eSin blanca en París y Londres\u003c\/i\u003e, 1933), regresó a la Inglaterra rural y empezó allí el ejercicio de la docencia (\u003ci\u003eLa hija del clérigo\u003c\/i\u003e, 1935), escribió sobre la clase obrera inglesa y la explotación (\u003ci\u003eQue no muera la aspidistra\u003c\/i\u003e, 1936; \u003ci\u003eEl camino a Wigan Pier\u003c\/i\u003e, 1937), recogió su experiencia de lucha contra el fascismo en la turbulenta Guerra Civil española (\u003ci\u003eHomenaje a Cataluña\u003c\/i\u003e, 1938), vislumbró en la convalecencia posterior el derrumbe del viejo mundo (\u003ci\u003eSubir a por aire\u003c\/i\u003e, 1939), colaboró con la BBC durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se consagró en el \u003ci\u003eTribune \u003c\/i\u003ey el \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003ecomo uno de los mejores prosistas en lengua inglesa (entre su vasta producción ensayística cabe destacar \u003ci\u003eEl león y el unicornio y otros ensayos\u003c\/i\u003e, 1940), fabuló las perversiones del socialismo (\u003ci\u003eRebelión en la granja\u003c\/i\u003e, 1945) y llegó a anticipar nuevos tipos de sociedad burocrática e hiperpolítica (\u003ci\u003e1984\u003c\/i\u003e, 1949). 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We are happy to publish this \"Illustrated Version of 1984\" to our readers with a \"New Cover\".\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker \u0026amp; Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modeled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. 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Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned -- a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published fifty years ago, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner; the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e (pseudonym for Eric Blair [1903-50]) was born in Bengal and educated at Eton; after service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, he returned to Europe to earn his living penning novels and essays. He was essentially a political writer who focused his attention on his own times, a man of intense feelings and intense hates. 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Taking as his starting point the betrayed promise of the Russian Revolution, Orwell lays out a vision that, in its bitter wisdom, gives us the clearest understanding we possess of the possible consequences of our social and political acts.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Motihari, India, 1903 - Londres, 1950), cuyo nombre real era Eric Blair, fue novelista, ensayista brillante y maestro de periodistas. Podría decirse que su breve vida resume los sueños y las pesadillas del mundo occidental en el siglo XX. 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