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1) 1984
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Series
Recorded Books classics library
Everyman's library volume 134
Signet classic volume CE 1626
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Everyman's library volume 134
Signet classic volume CE 1626
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret...
Author
Series
McFarland literary companions volume 18
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Author
Series
Studies in major literary authors volume 32
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's -- Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that, by...
20) Our Orwell, right or left: the continued importance of one writer to the world of western politics
Author
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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