The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984

The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984 /

"1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year, particularly in 2016, when the election of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lynskey, Dorian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2019]
Edition:First American edition.
Subjects:
Orwell, George, > 1903-1950. > Nineteen eighty-four.
Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George)
Science fiction, English > History and criticism.
Dystopias in literature.
Totalitarianism in literature.
Science fiction, English.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • History stopped
  • Utopia fever
  • The world we're going down into
  • Wells-world
  • Radio Orwell
  • The heretic
  • Inconvenient facts
  • Every book is a failure
  • The clocks strike thirteen
  • Black millennium
  • So damned scared
  • Orwellmania
  • Oceania 2.0
  • Afterword.

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