1984

In 1984, London is a bleak city where the Thought Police exert suffocating control over the lives of its citizens. Winston Smith is a cog in this perverse machine, his job being to rewrite history to conform to what the Party considers the official version of events. Until he decides to question the truth of the system that governs and oppresses them. This edition, published by The Orwell Estate, faithfully follows the definitive text of the author's complete works, as established by Professor Peter Davison. It includes an afterword by the novelist Thomas Pynchon, who contributes his personal perspective on totalitarianism and paranoia in the modern world to the analysis of the book. Miguel Temprano García provides the superb translation, the most recent of the work.