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The book is described by historian Norman Davies as a "devastating study" which "totally discredited the cultural and psychological machinery of Communism". [13] The book has been compared to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in that it, too, represents the view of an insider who draws on extensive ...
Throughout the book, Gribbin refers to a body of experimental evidence to support the theory and to aid the reader's understanding. He also uses thought experiments to help the reader understand the crucial concepts and interpretations of quantum physics, including of course Schrödinger's cat. Finally, Gribbin explores the philosophical ...
[33] He also refused a proposal from the American Book of the Month Club to release an edition without the appendix and chapter on Goldstein's book, a decision which Warburg claimed cut off about £40,000 in sales. [33] [34] Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on 8 June 1949 in the UK; [33] [35] [36] Orwell predicted earnings of around £500.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, first published late in 1893 with 1894 date. [1] It was first published in the UK by G. Newnes Ltd., and was published in the US by Harper & Brothers in February 1894. [2]
In Custody (1984) is a novel set in Delhi, India by Indian American writer Anita Desai. [1] ... Book Review This page was last edited on 9 October ...
1984: La Dueña, a 1984 Venezuelan telenovela with a female version of Edmond Dantès; 1988: Uznik zamka If (The Prisoner of Château d'If), a 3-part Russian miniseries adaptation starring Viktor Avilov (Count of Monte Cristo) and Aleksei Petrenko (Abbé Faria), with music and songs of Alexander Gradsky
The story is written without the use of quotation marks, and the dialogue is not distinguished from the narrator's comments. The story is rendered from the subjective point of view of the doctor and explores both his admiration for the child and disgust with the parents, and his guilty enjoyment of forcefully subduing the stubborn child in an attempt to acquire the throat sample.
On a Pale Horse is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony, first published in 1983.It is the first of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. The book focuses on Zane, a photographer about to commit suicide who instead kills Death and must assume his office.