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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
"The Toynbee Convector" is a science fiction short story by American writer Ray Bradbury. First published in Playboy magazine in 1984, [ 1 ] the story was subsequently featured in a 1988 short story collection also titled The Toynbee Convector .
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1984 novel also being born in 1945-46 according to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four. The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ... [the reader] can readily identify with." [1]
In Orwell's "1984," the Party that rules the nation of Oceania is in a constant state of war with surrounding nations. The same can be said about the world today, taking into consideration wars in ...
One for the Road, considered Pinter's "statement about the human rights abuses of totalitarian governments", [1] was inspired, according to Antonia Fraser, [2] by reading on May 19, 1983, Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, a book about torture on Argentina's military dictatorship; later, in January 1984, he got to write it after an argument with two Turkish girls ...
1984, may just be the next read for Madeline Argy’s book club on her Pretty Lonesome podcast.. While discussing the differing literature education requirements by country, Argy brought up the ...
1984 "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" is a short story by Stephen King , first published in the May 1984 issue of Redbook magazine, and collected in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew . Plot summary
Money: A Suicide Note is a 1984 novel by Martin Amis. In 2005, Time included the novel in its "100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present". [1] The novel is based on Amis's experience as a script writer on the feature film Saturn 3, a Kirk Douglas vehicle. The novel was dramatised by the BBC in 2010.