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1984 Nineteen Eighty Four Paperback – 1 Sept. 2004

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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted imply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

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1595404325
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978-1595404329
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1st World Library - Literary Society
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1 Sept. 2004
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English
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14 x 2.19 x 21.6 cm
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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted imply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way.On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.

It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ 1st World Library - Literary Society (1 Sept. 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1595404325
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1595404329
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Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 2.19 x 21.6 cm

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jeffrey penny

Mostly great...".mostly"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 11 November 2022

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My only gripe about this is "the book" which Winston reads,and really,it's quite tedious,because it tells us,as it does the character,what is already known,and goes on far too long telling us this,as if we hadn;t read the preceding 200 or so pages.As a socialist,I also disagree with the conclusions(which,in Orwell's time,must have been speculative) of this political belief and struggle.Quite honestly,without socialism,where would the ordinary person be?A PROLE,paying for health services,starving if out of work,starving for lack of a pension,working 18 hours a day in dangerous,mind numbing tasks,a robotic existence...in fact,just what the Tories would love to return us to.WE were the slaves that William Blake spoke of,not blacks,or any others who seem to believe we had every luxury when they lacked them---and we fought for our own,sacrificed for our own,not for imported inferiors.Socialism is not properly appreciated in the book,despite its condemnation of the distortion of communism/fascism as practised in the 20th century.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 28 October 2022

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I haven't ever really read a story like this, as this would all go right over my head. But Orwell, had a way of writing about society and the political scene, in an understandable and relatable way. I had many eye opening moments, and hae honestly felt like I have learnt so much about history, the present and the future through this book. Winston was a neutral character in my opinion, wasn't likeable, and in a way forgettable. I will however, always remember the lessons within this book. Orwell was clearly a talented writer, he's written a book that could have been written in any time and any place! 4 1/2 ⭐️

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klever kat

The crippling reality of life under tyranny - George Orwell's 1984 is a must read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 September 2022

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George Orwell’s 1984 depicts the fettered life of an individual living under a tyrannical regime. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a 39-year-old-man devoid of all human connection: parents, wife, friends and children. He lives alone and is an employee of the Ministry of Truth: MiniTrue. Like every other individual in Orwell’s dystopian society, Winston too is under the continuous surveillance of the government party - Big Brother: every thought, gesture and movement is watched closely and scrutinised. Winston is unlike the mass population, unform in their unwavering admiration of Big Brother, and instead he craves a life free of the shackles of tyranny. In his quest for this freedom, he embarks on a journey from where there is no return, where his actions render a fate that is inevitable.

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** spoiler alert ** I am sure that everyone and their pets have read this book and I am the last person to read it.
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I am so glad that I finally read this book.

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Basically, we follow a man who lives in a hypervigilant society where everything and everyone is watched and monitored by Big Brother. Your thoughts are not yours, they are listened to by the Thought police, your facial expression and body language is monitored by the telescreens. You behave outside the directive of the party and you disappear. Since the lie becomes the truth and truth a lie, your existence can be non-existent. Things like love, community, sex, companionship are things that the party from upon so to do any of the above is to go against big brother.
In this dystopia, we hinge our exploration on Winston Smith. A rather simple and unimpressive man who works at the Ministry of Truth. His job is to wipe the past, present and future and even create a new past and present under the directive of the all-knowing big brother. Winston began to write his thoughts on paper, his ideas and opinions about the party. He has broken the law but he finds that he cannot stop. Then he goes a step further, he falls in love, he has sex for pleasure, he joins the underground operation that has been trying to overthrow the party. Winston knows that he cannot escape the wrath of big brother he knows that he would disappear but he was willing to be an individual within a totalitarian society.

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There are so many phrases that I use and have become familiar with within society that I did not know wherefrom this book. It was great to get some context to their usage.

This book was not exactly 'haunting' or 'nightmarish' to me. Neither was it a depiction of current society to me. Sure there were certain elements such as the hyper-surveillance and the hunger for power that the party had that might be similar to how big tech companies manage data and watch our every move and they are the ones with the real power, not necessarily the government. When you know the people then can you use that knowledge for power.

However, I felt that everything was to the extreme. I kept thinking, if there is no law then there should be no crime because the tenants of a crime are to do something contrarian to the standards of society. Nevertheless, I can see how the continual erasure of language, information and event experiences can make the people compliant. Factors like war, famine and poverty are things that people with power use to keep people under their thumbs.

This reminds me of this line in the book;

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another .

Yes, this is where the world is at. Some people say we shouldn't have the 1%, others say we should only have the top 1% if there is no one suffering. I think the existence of both is a problem but the absence of it would not necessarily bring peace to the poor.

I will stop here. This book was good for thought and just reflecting on society and the possibility of the extreme. I think this book quite impressive with the tech that was explained and used in society considering that it was written in 1949.

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