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"It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." This is the first sentence of an immortal classic narrating Winston Smith's life under the dictatorship of Oceania headed by Big Brother. Sex and family have been turned from things of pleasure in people's lives to means of c ...

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Novels depicting an individual staving off an infinitely more powerful foe are often, while enjoyable, set in fantasy universes that ultimately have no relevance to real life and leave no lasting impression on the reader. However; the primary reason that THIS book is so effective at gripping the re ...

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1984 by George Orwell is a highly antagonistic book of a totalitarianism government in a time of instability. The protagonist and narrator of the story is a man named Winston who believes that the government has been corrupting it's people into believe certain people or events never occured.

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George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four - This is one of the few books that I think everyone should be made to read! It is such an incredible story, and yet so plausible when you are reading it. Bits of this book often spring to mind during my everyday life, which I think is always a sign of a good book ...

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George Orwell, 1984 - I very much enjoyed 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell had a terrifying vision of the world we were gradually becoming in 1949. Though 1984 is long gone, his concerns can still be applicable today.
Winston Smith is a lone protagonist in a corrupt totalitarian socialist society ca ...

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George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four - In this totalitarian nightmare, Winston Smith who works for the Inner Party's propaganda machine in the Ministry of Truth, finds hope, despite being forbidden, by writing and falling in love with Julia. However, their desperate struggle for freedom is crushed by ...

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Nineteen-eighty-four by George Orwell is undisputably one of the most important pieces of political fictiion. It was written during a period of unprecedented political instability when we saw the end of the world's great imperial powers and the rise of a new age of politics. Democracy, Fascism and C ...