Nineteen Eighty-four: The Facsimile of the Extant ManuscriptNineteen Eighty-Four, sometimes published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by George Orwell. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation dictated by a political system in the government's invented language, Newspeak, called Ingsoc under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimes." The tyranny is epitomized by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Nineteen Eighty-Four popularized the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. |
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Page 66
... O'Brien , He could not remember how long it was since he had first begun to think of O'Brien as a friend . It was an intimacy that dream . Years ago — seven years it must had started in a dream . все he had dreamed that he was walking ...
... O'Brien , He could not remember how long it was since he had first begun to think of O'Brien as a friend . It was an intimacy that dream . Years ago — seven years it must had started in a dream . все he had dreamed that he was walking ...
Page 144
... O'Brien a friend & not an enemy ? In reality , not a shred . Only a flash of the Dictionary was in the the eyes , an inflection of the voice , & years off secret imagining . eyes , an inflection in the voice , had led him into this ...
... O'Brien a friend & not an enemy ? In reality , not a shred . Only a flash of the Dictionary was in the the eyes , an inflection of the voice , & years off secret imagining . eyes , an inflection in the voice , had led him into this ...
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... O'Brien was either direction , / holding up . Innumerable fingers were still streaming across his vision , crossing & re - crossing.F disappearing & re - appeaning . He shut his eyes again . " How many fingers am I holding up , Winston ...
... O'Brien was either direction , / holding up . Innumerable fingers were still streaming across his vision , crossing & re - crossing.F disappearing & re - appeaning . He shut his eyes again . " How many fingers am I holding up , Winston ...
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