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 Most novels about an imaginary world (e.g., Gulliver's Travels, Erewhon) have as their central character, or interpreter, a man who somehow strays out of the author's own times and finds himself in a world he never made. But Orwell, like Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, builds his nightmare of tomorrow on foundations that are firmly laid today. He meds no contemporary spokesman to explain and interpret — for the simple reason that any reader in 1949 can uneasily see his own shattered features in Winston Smith, can scent in the world of 1984 a stench that is already familiar. The novel creates a world so plausible, so complete that to read it is to experience another world. Londres, 1984: Winston Smith decide rebelarse ante un gobierno totalitario que controla cada uno de los movimientos de sus ciudadanos y castiga incluso a aquellos que delinquen con el pensamiento. Consciente de las terribles consecuencias que puede acarrear la disidencia, Winston se une a la ambigua Hermandad por mediación del líder O’'Brien. Paulatinamente, sin embargo, nuestro protagonista va comprendiendo que ni la Hermandad ni O'’Brien son lo que aparentan, y que la rebelión, al cabo, quizá sea un objetivo inalcanzable. Por su magnífico análisis del poder y de las relaciones y dependencias que crea en los individuos, 1984 es una de las novelas más inquietantes y atractivas de este siglo.  "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is not impressive as a novel about particular human beings. Its account of life thirty-five years hence has little fanciful or gadgety interest. But as a prophecy and a warning it is superb. The ultimate degradation of a totalitarian sates is here portrayed with repulsive power. It is probable that no other work of this generation has made us desire freedom more earnestly or loathe tyranny with such fullness...the terrific, long crescendo and the quick decrescendo that George Orwell has made of this struggle for survival and the final extinction of a personality. Is contained inThe Complete Novels of George Orwell by George Orwell Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell Romanzi e saggi by George Orwell DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON; 1984; SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT and Other Essays by George Orwell Has the adaptationWas inspired byInspiredHas as a studyWhy Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens George Orwell's 1984 (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom Has as a student's study guideCliffsNotes on Orwell's 1984 by Gilbert Borman George Orwell's 1984 (Monarch Notes) by Ralph A. Ranald Has as a teacher's guide
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Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
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Penguin Australia6 editions of this book were published by Penguin Australia.
Editions: 014118776X, 1405807040, 0141036141, 0141191201, 0143566490, 0141391707
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