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Nineteen Eighty-four:

A Novel
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Penguin, 1977 - Fiction - 268 pages

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Contents

Chapter ONE
1
Chapter TWO
105
Chapter THREE
225
Copyright

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George Orwell's 1984 - Chapter 1 Section 4
With the deep, unconscious sigh which not even the nearness of the telescreen could prevent him from uttering when his day's work started, Winston pulled ...
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On the Shelf: George Orwell – Nineteen Eighty-Four (Audio Book)
Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four Author: George Orwell Narrator: Frank Muller First Published: 1948 Running time: 9 hrs, 35 min, 23 sec Format: Audio Book ...
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About the author (1977)

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari in Bengal, India and later studied at Eton for four years. Orwell was an assistant superintendent with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. He left the position after five years and then moved to Paris, where he wrote his first two books, Burmese Days and Down and Out In Paris. Orwell then moved to Spain to write but decided to join the United Workers Marxist Party Militia. After being decidedly opposed to communism, Orwell served in the British Home Guard and with the Indian Service of the BBC during World War II. He started writing for the Observer and was literary editor for the Tribune. Soon after he published the world-famous book, Animal Farm, which became a huge success for Orwell. It was then towards the end of his life when Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell died on January 23, 1950 in London.

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TitleNineteen Eighty-four: A Novel
Classics on cassette with book
Crowley ISD Novel List 9
Signet classics
AuthorGeorge Orwell
Editionreprint, reissue, revised
PublisherPenguin, 1977
ISBN0451524934, 9780451524935
Length268 pages
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