Nineteen eighty-four / [print]
1984
George Orwell ; with an introduction by Julian Symons.
- New York : Knopf, (c)1992.
- xlii, 325 pages ; 21 cm.
- Everyman's library ; 134 .
While the totalitarianism that provoked George Orwell into writing 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' seems to be passing into oblivion, his harrowing, cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate, and its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade.