An Anthology of Essays David Brin, Matt Bai, Melissa Febos, Joseph Sutton, Mike Siegel, Sean Fitzpatrick, Tim Hanley, ... He has written for Atlas Obscura, The Bangor Daily News, been featured on Slate.com, and is a member and regular ...
Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
I first read this book as a teenager, and there was a great deal of discussion about the book. Did we really think that life would be as totalitarian and regimented in 1984 as the book predicted? For most of us, no.
1984 is considered a work of political prophecy that continues to grow more haunting as it becomes more real with every passing day. It was published seventy years ago. English...
The Ministry of Truth is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Great ...
One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984.
The issues are important and what follows in this monograph invites discourse. I am sure Colonel Dunlap joins me in welcoming you to that discussion. Let me urge you to indulge yourself in "Technology and the 21st Century Battlefield.
Earlier in this century, George Orwell, in his novel, 1984, offered a vision of the world where the logical might be illogical, right could be wrong, and 2 plus 2...
Orwell's books are assigned today in over 60,000 classrooms annually. In this book essays by prominent writers and scholars explain why his impact continues in a world much changed from his own.
Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight.
Collection of previously published articles and interviews.