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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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The new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions. Science has abandoned Man for the State. As every citizen knows only too well, war is peace.
To Winston Smith, a young man who works in the Ministry of Truth (Minitru for short), come two people who transform this life completely. One is Julia, whom he meets after she hands him a slip reading, "I love you." The other is O'Brien, who tells him, "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." The way in which Winston is betrayed by the one and, against his own desires and instincts, ultimately betrays the other, makes a story of mounting drama and suspense.
George Orwell
George Orwell (1903–1950): Eric Arthur Blair, better known by the pen name George Orwell, is a famous English writer, journalist, and critic whose work is distinguished by intelligence and wit, a deep awareness of social injustice, and a belief in democratic socialism. He is best known for his dystopian novel "1984" and his satirical short novel "Animal Farm", which together sold more than any two books of any author in the twentieth century. His non-literary works—including The Road to Wigan Pier—and numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and culture have acclaimed him; wide fame. Orwell's influence in contemporary culture, popular and political, has continued even decades after his death.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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