Nineteen Eighty-Four
- ISBN-10
- 0198829191
- ISBN-13
- 9780198829195
- Series
- Nineteen Eighty-four
- Category
- Satire
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-01-28
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- George Orwell
Description
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) was George Orwell's final novel and was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period.
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