{"product_id":"paperblanks-orwell-nineteen-eighty-four-ultra-hardback-journal-plain-144-pages-pb5456-6","title":"Paperblanks Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Ultra Hardback Journal – Plain, 144 Pages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCapture your ideas, plans and memories in this Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four ultra hardback journal from Paperblanks, with 144 plain pages of 120 gsm acid-free paper.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four,\u003c\/em\u003e George Orwell’s dystopian piece of science fiction, introduced terms such as “Big Brother” and “thoughtcrime” into our lexicon. Only one handwritten copy of \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e survives, and we are honoured to partner with Brown University to reproduce it on this Embellished Manuscript cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe Story Behind the Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Orwell (1903–1950) is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist and literary critic remembered for his passionate commitment to democratic socialism just as much as for his lucid prose. He called upon his experiences as a member of the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in much of his writing, with a lingering sense of adventure yet keen awareness of the injustices he witnessed informing his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis strong opposition of totalitarianism is perhaps most strongly felt in his in 1949 novel, \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four.\u003c\/em\u003e This dystopian piece of social science fiction introduced terms such as “Big Brother” and “thoughtcrime” into our social lexicon and continues to be one of the mostly widely read English-language novels. In recent years the novel has seen a resurgence in public interest, climbing to the top of bestseller lists due to its unnerving relevance in today’s socio-political climate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrwell was no great keeper of manuscripts; in fact, he famously instructed his literary executor to burn any remaining drafts when he died. Of all his writings, only one handwritten portion of \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e survives. It contains four distinct stages of composition, written between 1946 and 1948, and accounts for nearly half of the final published work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe surviving manuscript of \u003cem\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four\u003c\/em\u003e resides in the John Hay Library at Brown University. It was donated by the author’s widow, Sonia Orwell, to a charity auction in 1952 and purchased by Scribner’s of New York. The manuscript was eventually purchased by Daniel Siegel, who published a facsimile edition in 1984 with help from the noted Orwell scholar Peter Davidson, before presenting the manuscript to the Library in 1992. 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