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The book's title and protagonist's name come from Said's own cat named Varjak, whose name is a reference to the film Breakfast at Tiffany's. In the film, one of the main characters, Paul Varjak, has written a book called "Nine Lives". When he and another character look for the book in the library catalog, it is listed as "Nine Lives by Varjak ...
The first part, called "1984", is a series of essays and interviews (Burgess is the voice of the interviewer and the interviewee) discussing aspects of Orwell's book. The basic idea of dystopia is explicated, and term " kakotopia " is also brought up and explored etymologically.
The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 13: All Propaganda Is Lies: 1941–1942: Book 1986 — Published by Secker and Warburg in 1986, later reprinted in 1999; volumes one to nine are reprintings of Orwell's non-fiction books and novels The Complete Works of George Orwell – Volume 14: Keeping Our Little Corner Clean: 1942–1943: Book ...
Two books about Orwell's relationship with his first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, and her role in his life and career, have been published: Eileen: The Making of George Orwell by Sylvia Topp (2020) [313] and Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder (2023). [314] [307] In her book Funder claims that Orwell was misogynistic and sadistic ...
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".
The manga chapter at the end of the book details Yellowfang, who has become the medicine cat of ThunderClan, feeding the now blind and captive Brokentail (who has been stripped of his -star suffix due to his crimes) deathberries, and revealing that she is his mother.
The author discusses the book on Dan Snow's History Hit podcast The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984 is a book-length history of George Orwell 's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four written by Dorian Lynskey and published by Doubleday in 2019.
The book opens with a prologue that recounts the Bluestar's death in Warriors: A Dangerous Path from Bluestar's point of view. The book then goes back to Bluestar's kithood, during which Goosefeather, the Clan's medicine cat, receives a prophecy about Bluepaw being a fire that blazes through the forest, but who will be destroyed by water.