Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of perpetuating the regime's propaganda by falsifying records and political literature so that it appears that the government is always correct in what it says. Smith grows disillusioned with his meager existence and so begins a rebellion against the system that leads to his arrest, torture, and conversion.

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	George Orwell. Collected works (Illustrated): Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), Animal Farm, Looking back on the Spanish War	Kindle Edition	20662	$1.99		2021
	1984: 60th-Anniversary Edition (Plume)	Paperback	39514	$6.99	$0.16	1983
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	1984	Kindle Edition	1337	$7.70		1983
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	1984, Level 4, Penguin Readers (Penguin Readers: Level 4)	Paperback	1296211	$39.75	$0.24	2003
	1984	Hardcover	891020		$16.11
	Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell	Hardcover	271090	$14.45	$14.43	2020
	1984: A Novel (Commemorative Edition)	Mass Market Paperback	374990	$5.97	$0.01	1983
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Everyman's Library Classics)	Hardcover	1488022	$13.80	$13.82	1992
	1984. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Animal Farm	Kindle Edition	8180	$1.99		2021
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Audible Audio Edition	24907	$15.35		2009
	Nineteen Eighty-Four: 1984 (Macmillan Collector's Library)	Hardcover	6592136	$13.51	$23.48	2021
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Mass Market Paperback	731135		$0.01
	Bloom's Reviews/ Comprehensive Research & Study Guides: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four	Paperback	1933511	$4.95	$13.98	1998
	1984 (Chinese and English Edition)	Paperback	1775781	$13.37	$66.37	2009
	George Orwell's 1984 (Max Notes) (MAXNotes Literature Guides)	Kindle Edition	419826	$2.99		1995
	1984 (Spanish Language Edition)	Paperback	161912	$152.18	$8.22
	1984	Paperback	8000705	$15.99
	1984	Paperback	571443	$14.00		2014
	Spark Notes 1984	Paperback	1774012	$12.99	$1.02	2002
	Animal Farm: 1984	Hardcover	12802	$12.50	$5.11	2003
	Nineteen Eighty-Four: Penguin Modern Classics	Audio CD	3050185	$29.78		2021
	1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)	Kindle Edition	96715	$9.49		2013
	1.984 (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	324017	$7.08		2015
	1984	Kindle Edition	7374	$2.99		2014
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Chinese Edition)	Paperback	10630758	$25.74		2015
	1984	Hardcover	1377558		$16.99
	1984 1st (first) edition Text Only	Paperback	2146845	$18.05	$12.38
	1984 (Signet Classics) 41th (Fourty one) edition Text Only	Mass Market Paperback	3586132		$55.00
	1984	Paperback	620885	$59.99	$4.92	1961
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	1984	Mass Market Paperback	730150	$6.99	$2.81
	1984 (Signet Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	623539	$4.00	$0.27
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	1984	Hardcover	2176377	$27.22	$27.21	2014
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Paperback	942417	$13.99		2022
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Baker Street Readers)	Hardcover	26518	$10.04		2021
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	Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel (Wordsworth Classics)	Paperback	63586	$4.53		2021
	1984 (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	659894	$17.00		2015
	1984 SparkNotes Literature Guide (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)	Kindle Edition	621463			2014
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	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Paperback	8529407	$14.99	$16.42	2020
	1984 (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	586370	$13.00	$19.65	2015
	1984 (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)	Library Binding	909946	$36.00	$25.99	2006
	1984	Mass Market Paperback	4774635		$24.99
	1984 (Planeta Cero) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	1765391	$12.99	$3.74
	1984: Roman (German Edition)	Kindle Edition	801890	$10.99		2021
	[Nineteen Eighty-Four (Everyman's Library Classics)] [By: Orwell, George] [September, 1992]	Unknown Binding	8952030	$28.92	$30.71	1992
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	George Orwell: Animal Farm / 1984, Unabridged Edition	Audio CD	2245418	$69.99	$27.98	2006
	1984	Paperback	191926	$9.35	$10.82	2016
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) (Oberon Modern Plays)	Kindle Edition	432959	$6.47		2012
	The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four	Hardcover	2959553	$50.62		2021
	1984	Mass Market Paperback	1415731	$100.37	$2.40	1950
	1984 (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	727923	$6.48	$7.31	2016
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	1984 & Animal Farm [Audiobook] [Unabridged on 12 CDs]	Audio CD	2607916	$59.95	$3.11
	1984 [German Edition]	Audible Audio Edition	4094	$11.95		2013
	1984 (Signet Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	8420	$4.98	$4.59	1960
	1984 (Folio) (French Edition)	Mass Market Paperback	747683	$12.13	$13.54	2017
	1984 Nineteen-Eighty Four (Alma Classics Evergreens): George Orwell	Paperback	641981	$8.74	$7.13	2021
	1984 - texte integrale + dossier (French Edition)	Paperback	5728197	$15.23	$19.32	2017
	1984	Hardcover	17143475		$57.33
	Nineteen Eighty-four (Essential Penguin)	Paperback	130868	$8.29	$0.18	1998
	1984	Hardcover	187365	$30.55	$35.62	2008
	1984	Audio CD	1756027	$79.74	$14.72
	1984 (Oberon Modern Plays)	Paperback	718083	$10.71	$10.77	2012
	Nineteen Eighty-four (Chinese Edition)	Paperback	1674909	$20.19		2013
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Paperback	1742526	$10.37	$8.66	2009
	1984 (Signet Classics)	Hardcover	411464	$12.77	$5.77	1950
	1984	Audio CD	2623410	$51.03	$49.52	2007
	1984	Audio Cassette	6324939	$29.95	$11.95	2004
	1984	Kindle Edition	13842
	1984: Novel-Ties Study Guide	Paperback	1354044	$15.26	$7.63	1983
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	George Orwell's 1984 (Max Notes)	Paperback	50636	$2.45	$1.55	1995
	1984 with Connections (HRW Library Study Guides)	Paperback	959743	$8.29	$5.80	2000
	1984 Animal Farm	Audio CD	3313475	$71.99	$9.15
	1984	Hardcover	4833	$13.42		2017
	1984 (Biblioteca Juvenil) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	1042999	$9.99	$13.97	2002
	1984 (MAXNotes Literature Guides)	Kindle Edition	157790	$2.99		2012
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell: The New Editions)	Paperback	1719572	$12.97	$9.40	2021
	1984 (Contemporanea (Debolsillo)) (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	57023	$7.00	$7.00	2013
	1984: Nineteen Eighty-Four	Kindle Edition	86094	$0.99		2021
	1984 - Multiple Critical Perspectives	Paperback	1388324	$16.74		2006
	1984 (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	375948	$10.55	$17.54	2018
	1984 (Folio) (French Edition)	Kindle Edition	972149			2013
	1984	Paperback	840	$10.00	$3.85	2003
	1984, Level 4, Penguin Readers (2nd Edition)	Paperback	352243	$7.40	$3.63	2008
	1984 (Spanish Edition)	Paperback	103812	$9.50		2018
	1984	Paperback	13855	$9.99		2018
	1984 (Chinese Edition)	Paperback	911633	$15.99	$21.56	2016
	1984 SparkNotes Literature Guide (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)	Paperback	11457	$0.69	$1.38	2014
	1984	Paperback	381386	$26.14	$26.00	2014
	一九八四【上海译文出品！豆瓣近8w人 9.4高分推荐！翻译家董乐山经典译本，包含附录'新话的原则'】 (译文名著精选) (Chinese Edition)	Kindle Edition	710419	$9.99		2009
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Audible Audiobook	13094	$8.99		2013
	Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism (Harbrace Sourcebooks)	Paperback	915489		$1.98	1982
	YNA Nineteen Eighty Four (York Notes Advanced)	Paperback	3750603	$7.07	$2.99	2005
	1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) (Oberon Modern Plays)	Paperback	461357	$12.55	$7.18	2014
	Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four Text, Sources, Criticism	Paperback	5351616	$860.48	$19.95
	一九八四 (Traditional Chinese Edition)	Kindle Edition	244281			2012
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Chinese Edition)	Paperback	5730188	$20.25	$15.00	2006
	Nineteen Eighty Four (Chinese Edition)	Paperback	5611869	$6.60		2016
	The George Orwell Complete Classic Essential Collection 6 Books Box Set (Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Clergyman's Daughter; Coming Up for Air; Burmese Days; Animal Farm & Nineteen Eighty-Four)	Hardcover	952008	$53.99		2022
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Hardcover	473282		$94.20
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Hardcover (Chinese Edition)	Hardcover	3218182	$13.99		2015
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	George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm)	Audio CD	139452	$16.47	$9.28	2007
	The George Orwell Complete Classic Essential Collection 6 Books Box Set (Keep the Aspidistra Flying; Clergyman's Daughter; Coming Up for Air; Burmese Days; Animal Farm & Nineteen Eighty-Four)	Hardcover	1050407	$64.01	$55.13	2022
	Nineteen Eighty-four [ 1984 ] (Italian Edition)	Paperback	2771016	$34.95	$19.99	2012
	Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, & Criticism	Hardcover	10056387		$45.98
	1984 (Italian Edition)	Paperback	3071331	$26.52	$38.67	2016
	1984 (Signet classics)	Mass Market Paperback	1691706	$9.87	$1.12	1950
	Nineteen Eighty Four	Hardcover	508248	$231.98	$19.19	1993
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	1984	Paperback	471797	$7.28
	1984	Hardcover	861211	$24.98	$2.02
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)	Paperback	3628503	$17.98	$0.98	2003
	1984	Paperback	762047	$4.95	$1.06	2011
	1984	Mass Market Paperback	1029292	$9.86	$2.38
	Nineteen Eighty-four: (1984)	Audio CD	3436389	$19.85	$28.24	2009
	1984: Roman (Fischer Klassik) (German Edition)	Kindle Edition	505943	$11.99		2021
	Nineteen Eighty Four	Paperback	1033955	$7.89	$8.62	2013
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)	Hardcover	3142998	$882.35	$400.00	1949
	Nineteen Eighty-Four (Chinese Edition)	Hardcover	1533299	$12.30	$31.76	2016
	1984 (Dramatized)	Audible Audio Edition	10389	$0.95		2011
	Animal Farm and 1984	Hardcover	2456226	$11.86	$11.38	2003
	Nineteen Eighty-four (BBC Radio 4 Dramas)	Audio CD	779342	$13.26	$13.89	2013
	1984 & MP3 Pack, Pearson English Readers, Level 4	Paperback	558476	$6.92	$11.78	2016
	1984 (Chinese Edition)	Paperback	1791032	$11.99	$27.18	2015
	1984 (RSMediaItalia Classics Illustrated Editon)	Kindle Edition	245623	$2.99		2015
	1984 and Animal Farm: George Orwell's Classics	Paperback	54057	$6.93		2014
	1984	Paperback	92262	$5.88
	1984 (Destinolibro) (Spanish Edition) (Destinolibro / Destinobook)	Paperback	177379	$5.81	$4.87	2008
	一九八四【上海译文出品！乔治•奥威尔的传世之作！堪称世界文坛最著名的反乌托邦、反极权的政治讽喻小说！豆瓣9.4，超万人评论！】 (译文经典) (Chinese Edition)	Kindle Edition	293277	$4.99		2009
	George Orwell 1984	Paperback	22714	$9.44		2017
	George Orwell's 1984: A Play	Paperback	517999	$7.43	$8.99	1963
	George Orwell Boxed Set (1984 and Animal Farm)	MP3 CD	213522	$18.87	$17.73	2007
	Nineteen Eighty Four (Penguin Modern Classics)	Paperback	305275	$11.28	$3.20	2004
	1984	Mass Market Paperback	1341143	$9.87	$0.13
	Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism	Paperback	2077025	$851.90	$8.94	1963
	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Hardcover	5011	$9.00	$8.99	1992