Name: Large Print - Nineteen Eighty-Four - Grand Type Collector's Edition - Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket
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Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781834123349

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Physical Book

Author

George Orwell

Publisher

Grand Type Classics

Language

English

Pages

680

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 4.1 cm

ISBN13

9781834123349

Large Print - Nineteen Eighty-Four - Grand Type Collector's Edition - Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket

George Orwell (Author) · Grand Type Classics · Hardcover

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Synopsis "Large Print - Nineteen Eighty-Four - Grand Type Collector's Edition - Matte Hardcover with Dust Jacket"

Experience timeless classics like never before in this Grand Type Collector's EditionWith clear, easy-to-read formatting, this edition is designed for readers who prefer or require larger text without sacrificing the excitement of the original.Large Print Features: 18-point font: Generously sized text for maximum readability and comfort.Sans-serif font: Clean, modern typeface designed to reduce visual strain.Italics are bolded: Important emphasis is maintained without thin, hard-to-see lettering.Easy-to-read line lengths: Shorter rows of text (under 45 characters per line) make reading smoother and less tiring. Nineteen Eighty-Four plunges readers into a bleak future where the Party controls truth, language, and even thought. In the surveillance state of Oceania, Winston Smith quietly rebels against a system that erases individuality and rewrites reality. His forbidden love and search for truth offer fleeting hope, but resistance comes at a devastating cost in a world where power demands absolute obedience.Published in 1949, the novel stands as George Orwell's most influential warning against totalitarianism. Orwell coined enduring concepts such as "Big Brother," "doublethink," and "thoughtcrime," which reshaped political language and cultural debate. Written in the shadow of World War II, Nineteen Eighty-Four remains urgently relevant, shaping discussions of surveillance, censorship, and freedom in the modern age.

George Orwell

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Eric Arthur Blair (Motihari, British Raj, June 25, 1903-London, United Kingdom, January 21, 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was a British novelist, journalist, essayist, and critic born in India, author among other works of the dystopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949)

His work bears the mark of autobiographical experiences lived by the author in three stages of his life: his position against British imperialism which led him to commit as a representative of the colonial law enforcement forces in Burma during his youth; in favor of democratic socialism, after having observed and suffered the living conditions of the working social classes in London and Paris; and against Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianisms after his participation in the Spanish Civil War, on the Republican side

In addition to being a chronicler, literary critic, and novelist, he is one of the most prominent essayists in the English language of the 1930s and 1940s. He is also known for his criticisms of totalitarianism in his allegorical short novel Animal Farm (1945) and his dystopian novel 1984 (1949), written in his last years of life and published shortly before his death, in which he creates the concept of "Big Brother," which has since entered the common language of criticism of modern surveillance techniques.

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