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Winston Smith moves through a monitored daily routine in Victory Mansions, where telescreens transmit and receive sound and his actions are scrutinized under the threat of the Thought Police. The opening establishes a world shaped by fear, strict social control, and ideological campaigns such as Hate Week, beginning with Winston’s uneasy attempts to endure and survive within the system.","Nineteen Eighty-Four  \nGeorge Orwell  \nALMA CLASSICS  \nalma classics  \nan imprint of  \nalma BOOKs ltd Thornton House  \nThornton Road Wimbledon  \nLondon SW19 4NG United Kingdom [www.almaclassics.com](www.almaclassics.com)  \nNineteen Eighty-Four first published in 1949  \nThis edition first published by Alma Classics in 2021  \nCover: David Wardle  \nExtra Material © Alma Books Ltd  \nPrinted in Great Britain by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY  \nisBn: 978-1-84749-857-1  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not be resold, lent, hired out or otherwise circulated without the express prior consent of the publisher.  \nContents  \nNineteen Eighty-Four 1  \nPart One 3  \nPart Two 89  \nPart Three 193  \nAppendix: The Principles of Newspeak 255  \nNote on the Text 267  \nNotes 267  \nExtra Material 269  \nGeorge Orwell’s Life 271  \nGeorge Orwell’s Works 280  \nSelect Bibliography 283  \nNineteen Eighty-Four  \nPART ONE i  \nI t was a Bright cOld day in april , and the clocks were striking  \nthirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.  \nThe hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide – the face of a man of about forty-five with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move.“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, the caption beneath it ran.  \nInside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig iron. * The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch, and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. He moved over to the window – a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue  \nnineteen eighty-fOur  \noveralls, which were the uniform of the Party. His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended.  \nOutside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere. The black-moustachioed face gazed down from every commanding corner. There was one on the house front immediately opposite.“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”, the caption said, while the dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own. Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word “INGSOC”. 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