Working deep within the Ministry of Truth’s Record Department, Winston Smith spends his days meticulously rewriting history to serve the Party’s ever-shifting version of reality. Yet behind his compliant exterior, Winston harbours a dangerous inner life — one that craves truth, freedom, and human connection in a world that permits none. When he embarks on a clandestine love affair with fellow worker Julia, he begins to believe that resistance might be possible. What he discovers instead is the full and terrible cost of defiance in a society where the telescreens watch every move and Big Brother’s gaze is inescapable. ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ Orwell’s devastating vision of totalitarianism remains as urgent as ever. Part of The Penguin English Library — collectable general readers’ editions of the finest fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the close of the Second World War.
ISBN 13: 9780241341650
Author: George Orwell
