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Abrams Press, 2021. Paperback. New. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5.5 x 0.85 x 8.2 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes timeline and index. 194 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, one of the most important books of the 20th century--and now the 21st Since its publication more than 70 years ago, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells of "alternative facts." The world we live in is often described as an Orwellian one, awash in inescapable surveillance and invasions of privacy. On Nineteen Eighty-Four dives deep into Orwell's life to chart his earlier writings and key moments… Read More

Paperback / softback. New. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann 'The first great book of the Trump administration ... essential reading' Rolling Stone We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the US President. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases. How did truth become an endangered species? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces… Read More

Classic Editions, 2021-01-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

Classic Editions, 2021-01-01. paperback. New. 4x5x7.

Red calf spine and corners. Red cloth boards. Gilt title and banding on spine. Dimensions are for one volume. Published in 1862 by Chapman & Hall using unsold shilling parts These first editions are true collectors' examples
Orley Farm is a novel written in the realist mode by Anthony Trollope (1815–82) and illustrated by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (1829–96). It was first published in monthly shilling parts by the London publisher Chapman and Hall. Although this novel appeared to have undersold (possibly because the shilling part was being overshadowed by magazines, such as The Cornhill, that offered a variety of stories and poems in each issue), Orley Farm became Trollope's personal favourite. George Orwell said the book contained "one of the most brilliant descriptions of a lawsuit in English fiction." The house in the book was based on a farm in Harrow once owned by the Trollope family. The real-life farm became a school, which was originally supposed to be the feeder school… Read More

Harcourt Brace & Co, 1949. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1st American edition and printing, stated on copyright page. (No mention of Haddon on the copyright, no dot on the rear board.) Includes facsimile dust jacket, in mylar. Bound in publisher's tan cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Head of spine has slight fray. 314 pp. Stamp on front paste down, small note on copyright page. Spine lettering slightly faded. Includes related ephemera about the previous owner, Eugene Sekulow, a bibliophile and student of history and politics, with a focus on Germany. Refs: Fenwick A.12b. Connolly 100 <br> 1984 was Orwell's most significant novel. Phrases as 'Double Think', 'Newspeak' and 'Big Brother' were coined in the book. The first US edition was printed by Harcourt, Brace and Company in 1949, only five days after the U.K. edition. The UK edition first printing ran 26,575 copies, the US edition was 20,000.. <br> <br> A wonderful… Read More