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A Signet Classic volume CW 942
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
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Series
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
194 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells of "alternative facts." The world we live in is often described as an Orwellian one, awash in inescapable surveillance...
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Series
Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL 54
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1961]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a broke British writer as he works as a dishwasher in Paris and stays in homeless shelters in London.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Language
English
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...