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Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

ISBN: 9780140126716
Release Date: 28 Jun 1990
Average rating: (read by 1150 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, and the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English Language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading party has become a classic, not the least because of its intellectual coherence.

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	Deborah
	Rated it 4 days ago

I probably would have liked this better if it hadn't been forced upon me at school. Room 101 is a place that I would never want to visit!

	nymphlite Full Review
	Rated it 17 days ago

This book may have got the actual year wrong when it predicted the future, but boy how much of it has come to pass in recent years. I think the biggest impression it made on me when I read it again recently was how newspeak and doublethink is so...

	kacooper
	Rated it 1 months ago

Excellent book. Should be required reading if it isn't already.

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