{"product_id":"nineteen-eighty-four-oxford-worlds-classics","title":"Nineteen Eighty-Four","description":"\u003cp\u003e'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period, and has been a huge international bestseller over many decades. Continually in print, it has long been controversial, both in its immediate Cold War context and in later history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is in some ways a realist novel, but in others is more akin to a work of science fiction, a dystopia or a satire. It also has strong affiliations to Gothic in its plotting, motifs and affective states. Full of horror and terror, it contains prophetic dreams and a central character who thinks of himself as a 'monster', a 'ghost' and 'already dead'. Like Frankenstein and Dracula, it is fascinated by the power of a documentary remnant addressed to an unknown reader.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Serafini Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48893608624378,"sku":"9780198829195","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/3101\/1322\/files\/71Ba88ir1CL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780413401","url":"https:\/\/serafinibooks.com\/products\/nineteen-eighty-four-oxford-worlds-classics","provider":"Serafini Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}