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The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
Beginning on January 1, 1984, The New York Times Book Review introduced revised and expanded best seller lists to "clarify categories of book buying". The hardcover books list was previously divided into two lists: fiction (15 titles) and general (15 titles). The hardcover fiction list remained the same, but the hardcover general list was ...
Pages in category "1984 books" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... This page was last edited on 27 November 2023, at 22:18 (UTC).
Pages in category "1984 novels" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. ... This page was last edited on 5 March 2019, at 20:30 (UTC).
Winston describes his first encounter with "The Book": A heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover. The print also looked slightly irregular. The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart easily, as though the book had passed through many hands. The inscription on the title-page ran: [5]
The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was ...
"1984" is still considered a fictional piece of literature to many, but a lot of what appeared in the book is now a reality. Like Big Brother: In "1984", there are TV screens and computer monitors ...
Pages in category "1984 fiction books" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... This page was last edited on 3 September 2020, ...