Robert Harris

1984

  • 1984

  • THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT

    "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

    The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police ensure no individual thinking is allowed.

    Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history. But Winston dreams of freedom, and of rebellion. It is here that he falls in love with Julia, and starts a secret, forbidden affair with her - but in this world nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.

    A dystopian masterpiece, this is the powerful and prophetic novel that defined the twentieth century.

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT HARRIS

V2
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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George Orwell
The Second Sleep
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Munich
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Fatherland
Fatherland
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Conclave
Conclave
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The Cicero Trilogy
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Lustrum
Lustrum
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Imperium
Imperium
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Dictator
Dictator
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An Officer and a Spy
An Officer and a Spy
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The Fear Index
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Fatherland
Fatherland
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Pompeii
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Archangel
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Enigma
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Fatherland
Fatherland
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The Ghost
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Fatherland
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A Higher Form of Killing
A Higher Form of Killing
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Selling Hitler
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Cicero Trilogy

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Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep and V2. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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