{"product_id":"nineteen-eighty-four-5","title":"Nineteen Eighty-four","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Orwell''s masterwork, now in the Penguin Clothbound Classics series with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the BBC''s ''100 Novels that Shaped the World''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHidden  away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth,  Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the  Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives  in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the  all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic  head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a  secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the  true price of freedom is betrayal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Orwell''s dystopian masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four \u003c\/i\u003eis perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57383887176062,"sku":"NW9780241453513","price":14.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241453513.jpg?v=1778665395","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/nineteen-eighty-four-5","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}