If you’re studying 1984 this year you might be intersested in following the Orwell Diaries. Since August last year the Orwell Prize has been blogging George Orwell’s 1938 diaries, each diary entry published on the blog exactly seventy years since Orwell wrote it.
You won’t hear much about 1984, he hadn’t written it yet, but it’s [...]
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The Orwell Diaries
January 25, 20091984 (as a pulp novel)
June 28, 2008Some people will do anything to sell books but this is one of the stranger 1984 covers I’ve seen.
Apparently it’s from 1954. The back cover says:
Which One Will YOU Be In the Year 1984?
There won’t be much choice, of course, if this book’s predictions turn out to be true. But you’ll probably [...]
The ending of 1984 (Warning: contains spoiler!) :-o
May 28, 2008The nice thing about doing ‘contemporary’ texts in English, rather than say Shakespeare or the ancient Greeks, is that you can sometimes see videos or hear audio of the writer themselves. Here’s Orwell’s own reading of the last pages of 1984.
1984: the comic
May 27, 2008Studying 1984 and finding it a little difficult? You’re probably not alone. It’s a dense and politically orientated text, presenting us with a very different and very frightening future.
You might find the COMIC version of Chapter 1 and 2 might help find your way into the text. It WONT replace a reading, but it might [...]
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