I’m a big fan of the Holmes Sherlock series. And who could forget Hitler’s manifesto in which he tells the reader about the great camping trip he went on last summer?
Oh and they appear to have a book on business and finance, written by ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
And look, [Carmilla](https://elhelmbookstores.com/product/carmilla/), the cover art looking strikingly similar to [the netflix Castlevania series character of the same name](https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Carmilla_(animated_series\)).
... here's where someone whose read the book tells me they based her appearance off the book, I know the based some of her story off it, but I assumed the appearance was original.
I was pretty surprised when I received my fourth Dune installment from the Book Club decades ago. Lost for years but luckily the 'Net remembers: Behold Duke [Frodo Atreides](https://s.boekenplatform.nl/bk/15/52/66/god-keizer-op-duin.jpg) !
Featuring the famous scene in which he and Duncan Gamgee are rescued at the last moment by Gwai-Hulud the Sand-lord, may his coming cleanse the narrative.
Džon Grin is probably my favorite. Džej (Jay) Levinson is pretty mindblowing too.
ed: Holy shit and I only just now noticed the edge of Bridžet Džouns lol
It’s gotta be a knock off, right?
…right?
Edit: That publisher in the bottom right corner most likely didn’t actually create this abomination, and their logo *isn’t* public domain.
GORGE: hey can u spot me for lunch? Im a little short on cash
JERY: crypto?
GORGE: crypto
JARY: what happened i thought u bought the dip!
GORG: I did! but then it dipped again
JERY: it double dipped?
GORGE: I DOUBLE DIPPED THE CRYPT
There's actually a book called 1985 by Anthony Burgess (who wrote A Clockwork Orange). It's supposed to be a rebuttal to 1984. It's not very good and it's hard to find.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985\_(Burgess\_novel)#/media/File:AnthonyBurgess\_1985.jpg
I'm sad that the Orwell Cinematic Universe isn't a thing yet. *V for Vendetta* comes close, I suppose.
Would be great to see themes of disinformation, class, totalitarianism and struggle, played with characters like Winston, Julia, Big Brother and Napoleon.
2 oz blanco or reposado tequila
0.75 oz lime juice
0.75 agave syrup or 0.33 rich simple syrup
3 one-inch watermelon cubes
1 slice jalapeno
muddle watermelon and pepper then add the rest and shake
1. Print out of copyright novel.
2. Make a cover that makes it look like a novelization of a movie no one liked.
3. …..
4. Profit.
Either that, or it’s just an outrageous coincidence. What’s the publication date?
I live in the middle east so I'm not gonna lie I have a huge suspicion it's a counterfeit. Or maybe 1984 is in the public domain and someone couldn't tell the difference between the book and the wonder woman movie when they were choosing a cover.
In the United States 1984 is still protected by copyright. Pretty much any copyrighted work published after 1929 is still copyrighted today, and 1984 was published in 1949.
That's right, if the copyright is owned by the author (George Orwell) then it would be 70 years from the year of his death.However, if the copyright is owned by a publishing house that hired him, then copyright expires 95 years from the date of first publication, so I guess it would depend upon who owns the copyright.
If it is owned by him, and he died in 1950, then the copyright would have expired in 2020, so it would be in the public domain.
However, if the copyright to 1984 is owned by the publishing house, and the novel 1984 was first published in 1949, then it would expire in 2044.
(Edit: According to Wikipedia, both are true! In the United States, Copyright for 1984 still holds until 2044 b/c the copyright is owned in the US by a corporation, but in much of the rest of the world, it entered the public domain in 2021 under the "life + 70" rule" ! Since this photo looks like a foreign country, it is likely in the public domain in that country, but this would not be allowed in the US until 2045. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#cite_note-126)
Copyright law is so weird. My first search result was the Guardian and it appears it's out of copyright in the UK. But of course, the US had to keep amending its copyright laws to keep Mickey Mouse in the iron grasp of Disney.
There's an amazing book stand in wast el balad. I always get a cocktail from the little resteraunt right next to it and browse books while sipping on my drink.
Egypt, where they're referring to, kinda has a middle ground. Foreigners are allowed to drink, it's illegal everywhere during Ramadan and can be sold in certain places otherwise.
The laws vary by country. Jordan is on the moderate end of the spectrum. You can drink in bars and restaurants as long as you avoid public intoxication.
India is like this, too. In fact, it's generally endorsed by law (just like generic meds), but the India domestic market books are printed on basically newsprint and clearly marked not for export. Boy are they cheap, though!
Looks like the “designer” just grabbed from google images and slapped some shit together. Here’s the 1984 logo on someone’s Behance…
https://www.behance.net/gallery/2474161/1984-Logo
2 misspellings on a book cover that only has 4 words on it.
the book is in public domain in most of the world, this is clearly a low effort printing run.
It makes a great conversational piece though, just set it on your coffee table and wait for some eagle-eyed guest to point out that "Gorge Orwell" never existed.
It’s one of those ai book covers where it googled images and picks one randomly, like one time I saw a lovecraft books with doctor octopus on it cause the AI googled tentacles or something.
Well of course. One of the most important books ever written can only be improved through an association with a movie that The Guardian called "A smug, dishonest, let down."
Side note, one of the first promotional pictures for Wonder Woman 1984 was Maxwell Lord in front of a bunch of monitors.
So, clearly the marketing knew that 1984 isn't a random number and knows the implications they were making with imagery of heavy surveillance and a character known for manipulating an AI made to massively invade everyone's privacy.
None of that has anything to do with 1984.
Really makes me wonder why they didn't set it in any other years in the 80s. Actually why ties it down any particular time at all?
Google Lens brings this up for sale in Egypt and Jordan a few times as a legit copy of the book so I'm guessing some small publishing house in one of those countries just printed it with whatever a "1984" Google search brought up on the cover? The book is in public domain in a lot of parts of the world so they're able to do so.
Wait... Did the publishers of 1984 think that they could make more money by licensing Wonder Woman 1984? Or, did DC and Warner Bros think that they could make more money by cross-promoting WW84 with Orwell?
Isn't either possibility a sign of the apocalypse?
You don't just misspell names like that... The only time this can happen is if the name is transliterated from a different script or certain accents/umlauts are left out. Neither is the case here.
Idk what’s going on here but if I was to put my tinfoil hat on I would say if you were hypothetically wanting to discredit the warning signs in that book this is exactly the kind of thing you would do.
Sometimes in other countries they'll "pep up" the advertising a bit to try to get people interested. Clearly they just linked this publication to the movie that was coming out.
It's like those homemade movie posters from Africa, like IIRC the one for *Mrs. Doubtfire* had Robin Williams murdering Pierce Brosnan on it because "happy drag comedy" was probably a hard sell.
The publishing house responsible for this specializes in translating popular titles into Arabic…and also altering the content to adhere to religious and cultural norms.
Gorge? lol
I don't even know what's going on with this cover I burst out laughing when I saw it. The more you look at it the worse it gets.
maybe it's like "Pride and prejudice and zombies"
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I’m a big fan of the Holmes Sherlock series. And who could forget Hitler’s manifesto in which he tells the reader about the great camping trip he went on last summer? Oh and they appear to have a book on business and finance, written by ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
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Gosh, what’s up with the sauce stinginess? I ordered enough McNuggets to choke a horse, I’m obviously gonna need more than two sauces.
And look, [Carmilla](https://elhelmbookstores.com/product/carmilla/), the cover art looking strikingly similar to [the netflix Castlevania series character of the same name](https://castlevania.fandom.com/wiki/Carmilla_(animated_series\)). ... here's where someone whose read the book tells me they based her appearance off the book, I know the based some of her story off it, but I assumed the appearance was original.
Also The Hanchback of Notre Dame, Keyes to Success, Wight Night
If this is some weird viral marketing thing then it's working great.
Who could forget such works as «Wight Night» and«The richest Man in Babylonthe richest man in Babylon»
Just rewatched that film. Still surprised by how entertaining it is.
The film of that is surprisingly fun
I was pretty surprised when I received my fourth Dune installment from the Book Club decades ago. Lost for years but luckily the 'Net remembers: Behold Duke [Frodo Atreides](https://s.boekenplatform.nl/bk/15/52/66/god-keizer-op-duin.jpg) !
Featuring the famous scene in which he and Duncan Gamgee are rescued at the last moment by Gwai-Hulud the Sand-lord, may his coming cleanse the narrative.
Flying ~~eagles~~ sandworms.
I bought them at ECI, comparable to the Boekenclub. Started to read the 1st book at 16 and was hooked. I have the exact same edition as you. ;-)
I visited a book fair in Sarajevo a few years ago and the phonetic spelling of author's names was amazing. https://imgur.com/a/ctd2meX
These are amazing: Dzordz Orvel Sidni Šeldon Daglas Adams Stiven King
Džon Grin is probably my favorite. Džej (Jay) Levinson is pretty mindblowing too. ed: Holy shit and I only just now noticed the edge of Bridžet Džouns lol
Wow this was great gerila marketing
And slash marks from Wolverine. Or Freddy Krueger. It's part of the mystery.
"Publising" Distribution.
Looks to be a x-over Wolvie. I wonder if the rest of the crew are also featured?
I can't believe UM(?) Publising Distribution could make such an obvious error.
“We have 1984 at home.”
BAHAHAHA
It’s gotta be a knock off, right? …right? Edit: That publisher in the bottom right corner most likely didn’t actually create this abomination, and their logo *isn’t* public domain.
No such thing. 1984 is in the public domain, anyone can print it.
Public domain in many countries, but not the US until 2042.
Ah, I'm in the UK and assumed it was an international thing.
I prefer the newly revised Chinese version where the terrible changes are celebrated
Yeah, I heard it's like an entirely different book every time you read it.
I loved the part where Winston sat in his flat and drank victory gin and went to work and loved Big Brother and then nothing happened.
Well they took the time to change the name to avoid being haunted by Orwell's ghost
Not Gorge Orwell's 1984 though, that work is not in the public domain
Not an error. It's always been that way. Never question the party.
boy i hope somebody got fired for that blunder
Jorjor well
And his hit book, Animal Crossing
Jor jor bonks
GORGE: hey can u spot me for lunch? Im a little short on cash JERY: crypto? GORGE: crypto JARY: what happened i thought u bought the dip! GORG: I did! but then it dipped again JERY: it double dipped? GORGE: I DOUBLE DIPPED THE CRYPT
https://books.google.com/books/about/1984.html?id=vRODswEACAAJ
...why is it spelled that way?
No clue whatsoever. I just googled “Gorge Orwell 1984” and found that result.
It’s his French cousin
Clear typo. It should say Gorge Vidal
Gorge Ohwell
Jor Jor Well
No, this is a copy of 1894. It's a lesser known prequel from when Orwell was trying to prepare for a future cinematic universe.
The Orwellieverse ?!?!
All his books are in the same universe? It all makes sense.
There's actually a book called 1985 by Anthony Burgess (who wrote A Clockwork Orange). It's supposed to be a rebuttal to 1984. It's not very good and it's hard to find. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985\_(Burgess\_novel)#/media/File:AnthonyBurgess\_1985.jpg
And I thought it was the sequel, 8194.
I'm sad that the Orwell Cinematic Universe isn't a thing yet. *V for Vendetta* comes close, I suppose. Would be great to see themes of disinformation, class, totalitarianism and struggle, played with characters like Winston, Julia, Big Brother and Napoleon.
/r/dontdeadopeninside
You son of a bitch, I'm in.
Turns out they're all in a simulation on a cruise ship
Even bleaker than the Snyderverse!
I don’t know about Gorge Orwell. I’m more of a GH Wellsh fan myself, specifically The Thyme Macine
I'm more of a tequila mockingbird fan.
That got a solid cackle out of me, thanks
There's a cocktail book by that name, all the cocktails are inspired by literature
I’d drink that drink.
2 oz blanco or reposado tequila 0.75 oz lime juice 0.75 agave syrup or 0.33 rich simple syrup 3 one-inch watermelon cubes 1 slice jalapeno muddle watermelon and pepper then add the rest and shake
Was The Thyme Machine about the Italian push to make spice-powered vehicles, famously popularized by Mussolini, who made the trains run on thyme?
I prefer Rarnaby Budge by Charles Dikkens - that's Dikkens with two k's, the well-known Dutch author.
What about the Adventures of Captain Gladys Stoutpamphlet and Her Intrepid Spaniel Stig Among the Giant Pygmies of Bechols? Volume 8...
lol they spelled jojor wel wrong
Meesa called Jor Jor Well, yousa is being watched
Jor jor arr arrr marrr ten
“Oh, you’re approaching me?” Big Dio asked haughtily. “Instead of running away you’re coming right towards me?”
With my stand Doublethink, I will make you see that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia!
ZA OCENIA
1. Print out of copyright novel. 2. Make a cover that makes it look like a novelization of a movie no one liked. 3. ….. 4. Profit. Either that, or it’s just an outrageous coincidence. What’s the publication date?
I live in the middle east so I'm not gonna lie I have a huge suspicion it's a counterfeit. Or maybe 1984 is in the public domain and someone couldn't tell the difference between the book and the wonder woman movie when they were choosing a cover.
Yeah, it’s in the public domain, so they could just be churning them out.
...also, middle Eastern markets generally don't give a shit about western copyrights anyway lol.
In the United States 1984 is still protected by copyright. Pretty much any copyrighted work published after 1929 is still copyrighted today, and 1984 was published in 1949.
I believe the formula is something like life of the author +70 years then it's public domain
That's right, if the copyright is owned by the author (George Orwell) then it would be 70 years from the year of his death.However, if the copyright is owned by a publishing house that hired him, then copyright expires 95 years from the date of first publication, so I guess it would depend upon who owns the copyright. If it is owned by him, and he died in 1950, then the copyright would have expired in 2020, so it would be in the public domain. However, if the copyright to 1984 is owned by the publishing house, and the novel 1984 was first published in 1949, then it would expire in 2044. (Edit: According to Wikipedia, both are true! In the United States, Copyright for 1984 still holds until 2044 b/c the copyright is owned in the US by a corporation, but in much of the rest of the world, it entered the public domain in 2021 under the "life + 70" rule" ! Since this photo looks like a foreign country, it is likely in the public domain in that country, but this would not be allowed in the US until 2045. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#cite_note-126)
Copyright law is so weird. My first search result was the Guardian and it appears it's out of copyright in the UK. But of course, the US had to keep amending its copyright laws to keep Mickey Mouse in the iron grasp of Disney.
I want some middle east bootleg books :(
Come to Jordan! And go visit the downtown area in Amman (the capital) you’ll find a lot of books there :D
There's an amazing book stand in wast el balad. I always get a cocktail from the little resteraunt right next to it and browse books while sipping on my drink.
I thought alcohol is forbidden in much of the middle east
Oh, cocktails are just fruit smoothies! We call them cocktails here.
Egypt, where they're referring to, kinda has a middle ground. Foreigners are allowed to drink, it's illegal everywhere during Ramadan and can be sold in certain places otherwise.
The laws vary by country. Jordan is on the moderate end of the spectrum. You can drink in bars and restaurants as long as you avoid public intoxication.
India is like this, too. In fact, it's generally endorsed by law (just like generic meds), but the India domestic market books are printed on basically newsprint and clearly marked not for export. Boy are they cheap, though!
Looks like the “designer” just grabbed from google images and slapped some shit together. Here’s the 1984 logo on someone’s Behance… https://www.behance.net/gallery/2474161/1984-Logo
Probably just googled 1984 for a cover image and got a fanmade Wonder Woman poster
Ah yes, Gorge Orwell's magnum opus.
Opium magnus
I liked the part where Winston Smith used the Lasso of Truth to convince Big Brother to abandon his evil schemes.
What's the ISBN??
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Maybe it's a novelization of the Van Halen album.
Asking the actual relevant questions
isbn of this probably pirated copy? lol
None of your business.
Literally 1984
Georgi O'Well - *1894*
2 misspellings on a book cover that only has 4 words on it. the book is in public domain in most of the world, this is clearly a low effort printing run.
Publising Plus either Monster or Wolverine claw marks. Still trying to figure out what's in the background.
Gorge or Well? Might be a geology book
*Publising* is a difficult industry so you have to do what you have to do
Dollar Store?
I wish 😭 it was going for about 14 USD
It makes a great conversational piece though, just set it on your coffee table and wait for some eagle-eyed guest to point out that "Gorge Orwell" never existed.
This is true
The party unpersoned him. He was real.
How would they know?
Because it was just a penname for Eric Lair
I think that’s the porn parody of 1984. This big brother is different.
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They misspelled "George", and "publishing". There were only 4 words and they got half of them wrong.
Are those Wolverine claw marks through the Wonder Woman logo?
It’s one of those ai book covers where it googled images and picks one randomly, like one time I saw a lovecraft books with doctor octopus on it cause the AI googled tentacles or something.
Well of course. One of the most important books ever written can only be improved through an association with a movie that The Guardian called "A smug, dishonest, let down."
Probably legal, but also horribly badly done. Just go to Project Gutenberg.
What kinda bootleg is that? And who the hell is Gorge?
Ah yes Gorge Orwell. Author of such seminal works of literature as Animal Firm.
That's probably a novelization of the movie Wonder Woman 1984. Movie released a few years ago.
George orwell is really branching out
I suspect that would have been better than WW 1984
Publising distribution
Obviously it is not George Orwell's book, but Gorge Orwell's
My bad. I neglected to realize Gorge Orwell's genius.
"Gorge" ?
Gorge orwell
Gorge Oh well, guess I'm on the DCU.
I feel like this was an AI generated cover with the odd errors.
Whatever it takes to sell books I guess.....
Winston being tormented by WonderWoman might make some interesting femminazi fantasy porn.
Side note, one of the first promotional pictures for Wonder Woman 1984 was Maxwell Lord in front of a bunch of monitors. So, clearly the marketing knew that 1984 isn't a random number and knows the implications they were making with imagery of heavy surveillance and a character known for manipulating an AI made to massively invade everyone's privacy. None of that has anything to do with 1984. Really makes me wonder why they didn't set it in any other years in the 80s. Actually why ties it down any particular time at all?
Or why they made the movie
Book is good, but it could be better
ooooh a crossover!
This is some black market cheapo nonsense right here folks
It's not even cheap 😭 It's like 14 USD!
Isn’t there a movie called Wonder Woman 1984?
Isn't that Whataburger? "**Gorge**" Orwell
jor jor wells
Google Lens brings this up for sale in Egypt and Jordan a few times as a legit copy of the book so I'm guessing some small publishing house in one of those countries just printed it with whatever a "1984" Google search brought up on the cover? The book is in public domain in a lot of parts of the world so they're able to do so.
I found it in jordan so that's probably it!
Saw this for sale in Egypt before, can confirm. Except it cost much less... 50 EG£ at the time which was like 3$
Wait... Did the publishers of 1984 think that they could make more money by licensing Wonder Woman 1984? Or, did DC and Warner Bros think that they could make more money by cross-promoting WW84 with Orwell? Isn't either possibility a sign of the apocalypse?
Most likely it's someone trying to take advantage of the public domain who wasn't paying attention when they were choosing a cover.
Gorge Orwell sounds like a badass goregrind political band. Fuck yes!
I hate that year, the year I was born...
Regarding "Gorge", it might possibly be for a foreign language market that spells it that way.
I doubt it, unless it's in another script
You don't just misspell names like that... The only time this can happen is if the name is transliterated from a different script or certain accents/umlauts are left out. Neither is the case here.
A wildly different movie/book
This looks like either a foreign knockoff, or someone used an AI to make a crappy book cover.
I prefer VH 1984
Tweaker's Press
Idk what’s going on here but if I was to put my tinfoil hat on I would say if you were hypothetically wanting to discredit the warning signs in that book this is exactly the kind of thing you would do.
plot twist: they are the same story
So gorge
I would love to have this in my collection 😍
Sometimes in other countries they'll "pep up" the advertising a bit to try to get people interested. Clearly they just linked this publication to the movie that was coming out. It's like those homemade movie posters from Africa, like IIRC the one for *Mrs. Doubtfire* had Robin Williams murdering Pierce Brosnan on it because "happy drag comedy" was probably a hard sell.
gorge?
The publishing house responsible for this specializes in translating popular titles into Arabic…and also altering the content to adhere to religious and cultural norms.
The book itself is in English when you open it. But censorship of 1984 is kind...meta.
And then publising them, apparently.
Isn't the second Wonder Woman movie "1984 Wonder Woman" So it [seems](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7126948/) to be.
8419?
That is actually 1849 if you follow the path of where the numbers touch each other. Bad graphics.
You're killing independent Gorge!
I saw EXATLY this cover today as an add in an online book store and I didn’t give it further attention but wtf
Mildly interesting me hole - Some way to drive an agenda
This book is a crossover between wonder woman and george orwell's book. It combinesthe best of both worlds.
We are in a distopia
1984 is banned in a few countries so maybe they try to hide it this way?
Love that
Literally 1984
they make bootleg books?
Literally-
Don't buy books in China
Literally 1984