Author:
Orwell, George, 1903-1950.
Imprint:New York Signet Classic c1977.
Physical Description:328 pages ; 19 cm.
Note:Originally published as: Nineteen eighty-four. New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1949.
Note:Winston Smith lives in a social system where surveillance, brainwashing, and execution are the state's tools for erasing personal will. His foray into passion ends with his arrest by the Thought Police and challenges him to be a hero.