1984, George Orwell
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1984, George Orwell
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eng
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950L, Lexile
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fiction
Main title
1984
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sound recording Playaway
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George Orwell
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Accelerated Reader, UG, 8.9, 17, 5976
Summary
In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be
Target audience
adult
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Nineteen eighty-four
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