George `Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is one of

the most important novels of the 20th Century.

It has a unique power to always appear prescient

Since it was first published in 1949, it has sold

millions of copies, been translated into dozens

of languages and never gone out of print.

Here, David Dunnico looks at how hundreds of

different covers have tried to capture the power

of Orwell’s ideas to sell Big Brother to every new

generation of readers.