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George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four.(Book Review)
From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20050101
Author:Deery, June
George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: Plume, 2003. Centennial Edition. Foreword by Thomas Pynchon; Afterword by Erich Fromm. xxvi + 339 pp. $15.00
Assuming that readers of Utopian Studies are perfectly familiar with Nineteen Eighty-Four, I will focus on the rather illustrious essays which frame this Centennial Edition of Orwell's classic, a new Foreword by none other than the elusive Thomas Pynchon and an Afterword by Erich Fromm, first appended in 1961. This 2003 reprint is a "centennial edition" because, hard to believe, George Orwell [Eric Blair] was born in 1903. ...
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