1984by George Orwell | |
| List(s): | "Racine Library List" "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - S. F./Fantasy" |
| Pages: | 314 |
| Year of Publication: | 1949 |
| Date Read: | 03/12/1994 |
| Notes: | In some bleak future world, a low-level government functionary named Winston Smith indulges in two unforgivable thought crimes — He has kept a diary and he has fallen in love with a woman named Julia. The novel highlights Western society’s failures and carries them to their ultimate, nightmarish extreme. COMMENTS — Intended as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. Many of Orwell’s coinages, such as “Newspeak” became bywords for modern political abuses. |
| My Rating: | 6 |