Endless reviewed 1984: New Classic Edition by George Orwell
1984: terrifying pre-digital dystopia
4 stars
Serving to lay out a well-told plan for complete cultural dominion via "thought police."
Paperback, 251 pages
English language
Published Jan. 16, 1981 by Penguin Books.
Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading Party has become a classic not the least because of its intellectual coherence. First published in 1949, it retains as much relevance today as it had then. --back cover
Serving to lay out a well-told plan for complete cultural dominion via "thought police."