Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ORWELL, George.

Item Number: 121923

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.

First American edition of Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a good dust jacket. Book plate to the pastedown. Caricature of Orwell on the rear panel by George Holland.

Written while Orwell suffered severely from tuberculosis and published shortly before the disease claimed his life, the novel is a work “of hectic, devilish, claustrophobic intensity… nightmarish in the telling” (Clute & Nicholls, 896). In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Named as one of Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century. “It is quite simply a novel which has changed the world” (Pringle, 100 Best Science Fiction Novels 1). Fenwick A12a. Connolly 99. Anatomy of Wonder II:838. 100 Most Influential Books 93.