A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick, with extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell's 1984 comes to life in this hardcover edition.

"Orwell recognized, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only a secondary means of altering perceptions. It is primarily a way to assert power." - The New Yorker

In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania, where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your thoughts. Winston Smith is a man in great danger, simply because his memory still functions. Involved in a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to overthrowing the Party. Together with his lover Julia, he risks his life in a deadly contest against the powerful.

Lionel Trilling said of Orwell's masterpiece: "1984 is a profound, terrifying, and utterly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of political future and serves its author like a magnifying glass to examine the present." Although the year 1984 is now in the past, Orwell's novel remains a pressing call to the individual willing to speak the truth to power.