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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780451524935
ISBN: 0451524934
Label: New American Library
Manufacturer: New American Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: January 01, 1961
Publisher: New American Library
Sales Rank: 1137
Studio: New American Library
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George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision of 'Negative Utopia' is timelier than ever-and its warnings more powerful.
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'Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere.'
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant 'correction' of such records. ''Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.''
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.
Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime--in 1984, George Orwell created a whole vocabulary of words concerning totalitarian control that have since passed into our common vocabulary. More importantly, he has portrayed a chillingly credible dystopia. In our deeply anxious world, the seeds of unthinking conformity are everywhere in evidence; and Big Brother is always looking for his chance. --Daniel Hintzsche
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Rating:  - More frightening now that it ever was in 1984
The 'big brother' world of 1984 as imagined by George Orwell has only become more frightening with the passage of time. The Patriot Act, Guantanamo Bay, and the erosion of privacy in the last 10 years have all smacked of totalitarianism of the ilk presented in this science fiction classic. It's not very hard to foresee the logical conclusions of sacrificing freedom for safety. Benjamin Franklin said it best:
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security ... Read More
Rating:  - Pay $18.99 for a $5.00 book
I really don't have to say much more. I bought this book for my husband because I simply loved when I read it. I saw that there were cheaper options in the website but I decided to go for a more expensive one, expecting a higher quality and I definitely got the opposite of that. And when I looked in the back cover I saw the real price for the book: US $5.00. Terrible. I'm returning it immediately.
Rating: - Ninteen-Eighty-Four: Still a Classic
While the 1984 has come and gone, George Orwell's masterpiece of the same title is still a classic.
In this dark alternate reality, oppressive super-governments control the world. Eurasia consists of mainland Europe and Russia. Eastasia is made up of china and southeastern Asian states. Finally, Oceania consists of the Americas, Australia, Southern Africa, and the British Isles. These governments are almost identical in their policies and philosophies, but are constantly shifting alliances ... Read More
Rating: - Perfectly Horrific
1984 / 0-679-41739-7
Painful, frightening, horrific. What do you do in a world where your every movement, every gesture is watched carefully by the government? How do you live in a world where even the slightest departure from complete conformity will result in torture, dismemberment, death? What hope can you have in a world where there is no escape - there is no free travel, and nowhere to flee to since all governments are the same? You cannot even take the step of ending your own life, ... Read More
Rating: - A Warning, A Prediction...A Terrifying Truth
First off, this book is incredible. At 13 years old, I didn't understand every aspect of it, but in a whole, everything made perfect, clear sense.
I'm very interested in socialist governments(no, I don't like communist views; I'm a die-hard patriot at 13!), and I consider myself well-informed on up-to-date politics and such. And so, upon reading this book which was recommended to me by one of my teachers, I was horrified at the resemblances that Oceania and the direction our government is headed ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780451524935
ISBN: 0451524934
Label: New American Library
Manufacturer: New American Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 268
Publication Date: January 01, 1961
Publisher: New American Library
Sales Rank: 1137
Studio: New American Library