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Alison Anderson (Translator)
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Pauline Baynes (Illustrator)
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Erich Fromm (Afterword)
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still...