Nineteen Eighty-four (penguin Modern Classics)

ISBN: 0141187352
Author: George Orwell
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In "Nineteen eighty-four", one of the 20th century's great myth-makers takes a cold look at the future. Orwell's study of individual struggling - or not struggling - against totalitarianism remains a salutary lesson in any society

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