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[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.
George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]
Of Mice and Men, the 1937 novel by John Steinbeck, is removed from Tennessee public schools, when the School Board Chair promises to oust all "ostensibly filthy" books from public school curricula and libraries. [3] Redu in Belgium becomes a book town. Saqi Books, an independent U.K. publisher, is founded by Mai Ghoussoub.
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 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]
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 ...
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Fictitious map, illustrating the political landscape of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, based on 1984 fictious world map v2 quad.png, rendered from 1984 fictious world map v2.svg, inspired by 1984 fictious world map.png and 1984 Orwell arrows 2.png, based on File:BlankMap-World6.svg, created following Wikipedia's map color standard. Date: 21 ...
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