1984

A deluxe hardcover edition of 1984: one of the most celebrated novels of the twentieth century Orwell's cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before. Winston Smith spends his days rewriting history to fit the narrative that his government wants citizens to believe. But as the gap between the propaganda he writes and the reality he lives proves too much for Winston to swallow he begins to seek some form of escape. His desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing tyrannical state illuminates the tendencies apparent in every modern society and makes vivid the universal predicament of the individual. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid-free cream-colored paper with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon markers European-style half-round spines and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics