1984 with Connections by George Orwell [1999 HARDCOVER]

1984 with Connections by George Orwell  STUDENT EDITION [1999] HOLT RINEHART & WINSTON Rare classroom edition hardback presents the text of George Orwell's "1984" along with study guides, six articles, short stories, poems, and essays with a similar theme. Large glossback hardcover;  Book is in excellent condition.  Small stamp on front endpaper.  Reads like new.  Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever writ