ORWELL, George (1903?1950). Nineteen Eighty?Four. London: S...

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  ORWELL, George (1903?1950). Nineteen Eighty?Four. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949. 8vo. Original publisher?s light green cloth with red lettering (spine sunned, some light staining to upper cover, ownership name penciled on ffep); original unclipped red and white dust jacket (front panel and spine sunned with few spots of surface rubbing, extreme ends chipped). FIRST EDITION of Orwell?s famous dystopian novel in the preferred and more rare red dust jacket (issued in both red and green). Nineteen Eighty?Four ?has been called an embittered book? the political arguments are never dull? ?Double Think,? ?Newspeak,? and ?Big Brother? now form parts of the language. It is a warning against totalitarianism under any disguise? left of right? (Connolly, p. 94). It is also one of the most often censored books in the U.S., ranking 5th among frequently challenged books in American schools from 1965?1982 and although the book was already considered a classic by critics, it was only present in 43% of school libraries (100 Banned Books, pp. 118?123).
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