![]() ![]() Five days later the American edition from Harcourt & Brace was published, no numerals, just Nineteen Eighty-Four on the dust jacket. However, the iconic dust jacket designed by Michael Kennard for the genuine first edition of the novel published by Secker & Warburg on the 8th June (featured above), has both. The novel was originally published in Great Britain and the United States of America during 1949, six months prior to George Orwell’s premature death, aged 46. These drafts were originally published as Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript. Why the variation? ![]() Which was correct?Īs recently as last month a new, exquisitely bound limited edition of the only substantial manuscript to survive Orwell’s nomadic lifestyle was published with the numeric title, 1984: Manuscript. George Orwell (4th February 1949)Īn inquisitive student recently queried why the cover of their novel had the title, Nineteen Eighty-Four but the film adaptation they had viewed was 1984? Another held their edition of the book aloft to reveal a numeric title. We haven’t definitively fixed the title, but I think it will be called “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. ![]() I ballsed it up rather, partly owing to being so ill while I was writing it, but I think some of the ideas in it might interest you. My new book is a Utopia in the form of a novel. ![]()
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