One of Britain's most popular novels George Orwell's dystopian tale Nineteen Eighty-Four" is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. ' It was a bright cold day in April & the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia he discovers that life does not have to be dull & deadening & awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover & circle overhead Winston & Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent
- even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101..." Nineteen Eighty-Four" is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything & everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. The novel also coined many new words & phrases which regular appear in popular culture such as ' Big Brother' 'thoughtcrime' 'doublethink' & ' Newspeak'. " More relevant to today that almost any other book that you can think of". (Jo Brand). " Right up there among my favourite books...I read it again & again". (Margaret Atwood). George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was an accomplished social political & literary commentator & essayist known for his non-fiction works " The Road to Wigan Pier" & " Homage to Catalonia". His most famous novels " Animal Farm" & "1984" have influenced a generation of twentieth century political satirists & dystopian novelists. This edition of Orwell's seminal novel is introduced by Professor Peter Davidson."
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Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
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- It was a bright cold day in April & the clocks

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Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in which demands absolute obedience & controls him through the all-seeing telescreens & the watchful eye of Big Brother symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth & liberty Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. ...

George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century making famous Big Brother newspeak & Room 101. ' Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in which demands absolute obedience & controls him through the all-seeing telescreens & the watchful eye of Big Brother symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth & liberty Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) better known by his pen-name George Orwell was born in India where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author & journalist Orwell was one of the most prominent & influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945 & it was this novel together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels & non-fiction including Burmese Days (1934) Down & Out in Paris & London (1933) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) & Homage to Catalonia (1938) are published in Penguin Modern Classics. If you enjoyed Nineteen Eighty-Four you might like Orwell's Animal Farm also available in Penguin Great Orwell. His final masterpiece.. .enthralling & indispensible for understanding modern history". (Timothy Garton-Ash New York Review of Books). " The book of the twentieth century.. .haunts us with an ever-darker relevance". (Independent)." ...

This is the essential edition of the essential book of modern times 1984" now annotated for students with an introduction by D. J. Taylor. Ever since its publication in 1949 George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian regime where Big Brother controls its citizens like 'a boot stamping on a human face' has become a touchstone for human freedom & one of the most widely-read books in the world. In this new annotated edition Orwell's biographer D. J. Taylor elucidates the full meaning of this timeless satire explaining contemporary references in the novel placing it in the context of Orwell's life elaborating on his extraordinary use of language & explaining the terms such as Newspeak Doublethink & Room 101 that have become familiar phrases today." ...

Most undergraduate literature courses begin with a compulsory survey course on the novel. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader fills a real gap in the market as no other book provides such a comprehensive selection of contemporary & modern essays & reviews on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction & a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning & function of realism informed & shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed are: Northanger Abbey Jane Eyre Dombey & Son Middlemarch Far From the Madding Crowd Germinal Madame Bovary The Woman in White The Portrait of a Lady The Awakening Dracula Heart of Darkness. ...

The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth & legend in comics film & electronic games. But once they were real the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies saboteurs assassins. In their secrecy undercover skills & determination to survive they were the opposite of the overt self-destructive samurai. Could they fly? Make themselves invisible? Of course not. It was just that their skills gave them a magical aura. As a result martial artists & story-tellers have turned them into fantasy creatures from James Bond to Mutant Turtles. In Ninja John Man goes in search of the truth. In a journey to the heartland of the ninjas he takes us from their origins over 1 000 years ago through their heyday in the civil wars that ended with Japans unification in 1600. But that was not the end of the ninja ethos. That re-emerged in World War Two as a little-known counterpart to Japanese militarism. Ninja ways live on in the real last of the ninjas Hiroo Onoda who held out in the Philippine jungle for 30 years. From feudal Japan to 21st Century Hollywood John Mans epic story reveals the reality behind one of the worlds most enduring legends. ...

Delving into new worlds populated by robots witches talking pandas & giant stags this collection offers funny haunting & heartbreaking poems. Highlighting the poets dazzling lyrical instincts balanced by her stinging wit it moves between high art pop culture science fiction & detective fiction to produce a series of unforgettable surprises. The characters herein speak from the page from the lonely android seeking love in the wrong places to Sherlock Holmess hunting for a Yeti in Tibet. By searching out the heart of every real or fantastical situation this compilation explores what it means to be human. ...

If middle school sucked for Vladimir Tod high school is a real drain. Besides being a punch bag for bullies hes still going nowhere fast with dream girl Meredith. Needless to say practicing his vampire skills hasnt exactly been a priority for Vlad
- until now. A monumental trip to Siberia with Uncle Otis training alongside the most gifted vampires is exactly what Vlad needs. & hed better get it right because the battle brewing back home with the vampire whos been stalking him.. .could be Vlads last.
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Its a game of hide & seek & Dad the crab is looking for Tim but he cant find him anywhere. As he hunts around the seabed he finds lots of other crabs in different hiding places but will he ever find Tim? Written & illustrated by Shoo Rayner this is a fun story with lively colourful artwork. * Pink/1A
- a simple story with a familiar setting * Text type
- Fiction * The focus phonemes in this book are s a t i p n m d * A picture of the seabed on pages 14-15 shows all the crabs & their hiding places to help children recap the story

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