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1984:

a novel
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New American Library, 1983 - Fiction - 268 pages
For use in schools and libraries only. Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia" in its representation of an imaginary world that is completely convincing.

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1984 is one of those books I thought I'd read in school, but hadn't actually read. I did see the movie with John Hurt as Winston Smith and most of the language of 1984 has passed into common use, like ...

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Orwell's painting of a dystopian society is very well done. Throughout his telling of Winston's story, he sticks to blacks and whites, and only sometimes does he use grays. The way he writes Winston ...

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Section 2
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Section 3
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GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950)?was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels?as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.

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