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1984

1984 Sources and ClassicNote Author

Christina Shelby, author of ClassicNote. Completed on July 30, 2007, copyright held by GradeSaver.
Updated and revised by Jordan Berkow September 19, 2007. Copyright held by GradeSaver.
Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Signet Classic, 1949.
Crick, Bernard. George Orwell: A Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.
Steinhoff, William R. George Orwell and the Origins of 1984. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1975.
Howe, Irving. 1984 Revisited: Totalitarianism in Our Century. New York: Harper Row, 1983.
Hitchens, Christopher. Why Orwell Matters. New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Cushman, Thomas, and Rodden, John. George Orwell: Into the Twenty-First Century. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2004.