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  • Mass Market Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Signet Classic (January 1, 1961)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0451524934
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451524935
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.9 x 7.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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5.0 out of 5 starsPerfect Primer for POTUS 45
By Paul Paron on January 23, 2017
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I'd read this year's ago but I thought was a good idea to read it again and brush up on things

Today Kellyanne Conway announced that we were given alternate facts. Shades of changing the past and controlling the present

Get ready to party like it's 1984
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5.0 out of 5 starsA must read!!
By KR on January 15, 2017
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In the 1960's I first read this book. It has been a guiding reminder through these years of how fragile freedom and democracy can be and of how important it is to be vigilant and aware of trends that may destroy them! (2017)
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This book is stunning, really makes you think how degraded our government has become.
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5.0 out of 5 stars33 Years Later, 1984 Is Upon Us
By prisrob TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on January 24, 2017
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1984 was a year of some fears. There was the Cold War fear, the fears about the film 'The Day After' that reflected the nuclear fears. But, the 1984 that George Orwell, had predicted, Was not, yet, here.. We went along in the 1980's with those and other fears, but we were mostly happy. I first read this book as a teenager, and there was a great deal of discussion about the book. Did we really think that life would be as totalitarian and regimented in 1984 as the book predicted? For most of us, no. We realized most would be alive in that year, and we had no fear.

Now, in 2017, the fear is here. 1984, the book is in the top ten book sellers this week. Why? Fasicism is upon us. Our rights are being depleted everyday. George Orwell told us, but it took 33 years after 1984 for his predictions to come true. Read on, ye seekers of truth, we need to unite.

Recommended. prisrob 01-25-17
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5.0 out of 5 starsStill holds up.
By essie on January 19, 2017
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I find this work still is applicable if not even more so now than when it was written.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIf George was only alive today he would be shocked ...
By Moi on December 1, 2016
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If George was only alive today he would be shocked to see how much farther down this path we have gone.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLiterary call to arms?
By Amazon Customer on January 25, 2017
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First of all, as a review, this book is amazing. It exposed me to the concepts of equality, freedom, prejudice, and fascism by, as my English teacher taught me, showing and not telling me. It also made me understand how easily our freedoms can be lost. Although I still have my dogeared copy, I bought the digital to support the numbers who are purchasing it because of our current situation.
I would love to find a way to contribute to the recognition of how relevant and prescient Orwell's work is to our current situation. Does anyone else feel like those of us who can should provide copies of this book to schools or other educational resources? I am mostly social media and politically ignorant but I would love to support a movement that used donations of this book to teach the issues that we are faced with now, from the alternative facts through the silencing of government agencies to the press arrested via bulk arrests at protests just because they were documenting the dissent. If anyone knows how to set up a distribution of this book through charity (me and others who feel this way) at no cost to schools or elsewhere as a form of protest please let me know, or post so others can help as well.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe kind of distressing book you NEED to read...
By B. Alcat on August 7, 2004
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Eric Arthur Blair was an important English writer that you probably already know by the pseudonym of George Orwell. He wrote quite a few books, but many believe that his more influential ones were "Animal farm" (1944) and "1984" (1948).In those two books he conveyed, metaphorically and not always obviously, what Soviet Russia meant to him.

I would like to make some comments about the second book, "1984". That book was written near his death, when he was suffering from tuberculosis, what might have had a lot to do with the gloominess that is one of the essential characteristics of "1984". The story is set in London, in a nightmarish 1984 that for Orwell might well have been a possibility, writting as he was many years before that date. Or maybe, he was just trying to warn his contemporaries of the dangers of not opposing the Soviet threat, a threat that involved a new way of life that was in conflict with all that the English held dear.

Orwell tried to depict a totalitarian state, where the truth didn't exist as such, but was merely what the "Big Brother" said it was. Freedom was only total obedience to the Party, and love an alien concept, unless it was love for the Party. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed. The Party slogan said that "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past", and they applied it constantly by "bringing up to date" the past so as to make it coincide with whatever the Party wanted.

From Winston Smith's point of view, many things that scare us are normal.Read more ›
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