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by George Orwell

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Notes

  1. ^ "Orwellian". The Oxford English Reference Dictionary (2nd ed.). 1996. p. 1027. 
  2. ^ Bowker, Chapter 18. "thesis": p. 368-369.
  3. ^ Bowker, p. 383, 399.
  4. ^ Charles' George Orwell Links
  5. ^ John Rodden. The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of "St. George" Orwell
  6. ^ CEJL, iv, no. 125
  7. ^ Crick, Bernard. Introduction to Nineteen Eighty-Four(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984)
  8. ^ Orwell's 1984
  9. ^ Why did George Orwell call his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four?" , by David Alan Green
  10. ^ Nineteen Eighty-four, ISBN 978-0-141-18776-1 p.xxvii (Penguin)
  11. ^ Marcus, Laura; Peter Nicholls (2005). The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82077-4.  p. 226: "Brave New World [is] traditionally bracketed with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as a dystopia..."
  12. ^ The Complete List | TIME Magazine - ALL-TIME 100 Novels
  13. ^ Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States. As a work published 1923–63 with renewed notice and copyright, it remains protected for 95 years from its publication date
  14. ^ Canadian protection comprises the author's life and 50 years from the end of the calendar year of death
  15. ^ Russian law stipulates likewise
  16. ^ Australian law stipulates life plus 70 years, since 2005. The law was not retroactive, excluding from protection works published in the lifetime of an author who died in 1956 or earlier
  17. ^ Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others
  18. ^ Stone, Brad (July 18, 2009), "Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle", The New York Times: B1, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=1 
  19. ^ Amazon says it won't repeat Kindle book recall - CNet News
  20. ^ "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it". "Why I Write" (1946) in The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 1 - An Age Like This 1920–1940 p.23 (Penguin)
  21. ^ The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell Volume 4 - In Front of Your Nose 1945–1950 p.546 (Penguin)
  22. ^ Part I, Ch. 1.
  23. ^ Part I, Ch. 3.
  24. ^ "striking thirteen" (1:00 pm). In 1984, the 24-hour clock is modern, the 12-hour clock is old-fashioned, Part I, Ch. 8.
  25. ^ E-notes, "Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree".
  26. ^ a b Part II, Ch. 9.
  27. ^ Part III, Ch. 6.
  28. ^ Reed, Kit (1985). "Barron's Booknotes-1984 by George Orwell-Free Book Notes". Barron's Educational Series, Inc.. http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/198423.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 
  29. ^ George Orwell: "Notes on Nationalism"
  30. ^ George Orwell - James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution - Essay
  31. ^ "Ethnolinguistics". Mnsu.edu. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/language/whorf.html. Retrieved 2010-02-22. 
  32. ^ Margaret Atwood: "Orwell and me". The Guardian 16 June 2003
  33. ^ Benstead, James (26 June 2005). "Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four".
  34. ^ Thomas Pynchon: Foreword to the Centennial Edition to Nineteen eighty-four, pp. vii–xxvi. New York: Plume, 2003. In shortened form published also as The Road to 1984 in The Guardian (Analysis)
  35. ^ "London Letter to Partisan Review, December 1944, quoted from vol. 3 of the Penguin edition of the Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters.
  36. ^ George Orwell: Why I Write
  37. ^ Shelden, Michael (1991). Orwell—The Authorized Biography. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0060167093. ; pp 430-434
  38. ^ John A. Hobson, 1920: Dips into the Near Future
  39. ^ George Orwell, "Review", Tribune, 4 January 1946.
    paraphrasing Rayner Heppenstall, he reportedly said "that he was taking it as the model for his next novel". Bowker, p. 340.
  40. ^ "The real room 101". bbc.co.uk. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/room-101.shtml. Retrieved 2006-12-09. 
    Meyers (2000), p. 214.
  41. ^ Literatura Prospectiva. Mundo Espejo. Fahrenheit 56K. Fernando de Querol Alcaraz
  42. ^ Knodel, Lisa (2004-02-27). "[Compact Disks]". Dayton Daily News. 
  43. ^ Muse frontman Matt Bellamy said that before writing/recording the album he re-read 1984 and that much of the album is based around the plot and love story of the novel.

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