Book description
This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times,
1984, now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor.
Ever since its publication in 1948, George Orwell's terrifying
vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its
citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a
touchstone for human freedom, and one of the most widely-read books in
the world. In this new annotated edition Orwell's biographer D. J.
Taylor elucidates the full meaning of this timeless satire, explaining
contemporary references in the novel, placing it in the context of
Orwell's life, elaborating on his extraordinary use of language and
explaining the terms such as Newspeak, Doublethink and Room 101 that
have become familiar phrases today.
D. J. Taylor was born in Norwich in 1960. He is a novelist, critic
and acclaimed biographer, whose
Orwell: The Life
won the Whitbread Biography prize in 2003. His most recent books are
Kept: A Victorian Mystery
(a
Publishers Weekly
Book of the Year),
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a
Generation 1918-1940
, and the novels
Ask Alice
and
At the Chime of a City Clock
.
