March 01, 2006
Another interesting cover from my pulp collection: 1984
Here's another from my collection, a 1960 Signet Books edition of the 1949 classic of George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Testing my OCR (OmniPage SE) on this back cover text:
"Which One
will YOU be in the Year
1984
Proletarian - Considered inferior and kept in total ignorance, you'll be fed lies from the Ministry of Truth, eliminated upon signs of promise or ability!
Police Guard - Chosen for lack of intelligence but superior brawn, you'll be suspicious of everyone and be ready to give your life for Big Brother, the leader you've never even seen!
Party Member - Male - Face-less mind-less, a flesh-and-blood robot with a push-button brain, you're denied love by low, taught hate by the flick of a switch!
Party Member - Female - A member of the Anti-Sex League from birth, your duty will be to smother all human emotion, and your children might not be your husband's!
Unbelievable? You'll feel differently after you've read this best-selling book of forbidden love and terror in a world many of us may live to see!
George ORWELL was born in 1903 and died in 1950. Educated at Eton, career was varied-Burma service the Imperial Police, twoyears in Paris, and teaching in England preceded the war in Spain and Home Guard membership in World War II. A frequent contributor to literary reviews, his books include Animal Farm, Burmese Days and Down and Out in Paris and London.
PUBLISHED BY THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY"
