The Resource The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984, Dorian Lynskey
The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984, Dorian Lynskey
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The item The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984, Dorian Lynskey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 6 library branches.
- Summary
- "1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year, particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts," anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). 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 Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history."-- Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- xix, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- History stopped
- Utopia fever
- The world we're going down into
- Wells-world
- Radio Orwell
- The heretic
- Inconvenient facts
- Every book is a failure
- The clocks strike thirteen
- Black millennium
- So damned scared
- Orwellmania
- Oceania 2.0
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9780385544054
- Label
- The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Title
- The ministry of truth
- Title remainder
- the biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Statement of responsibility
- Dorian Lynskey
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year, particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts," anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). 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 Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history."-- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- BYV
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lynskey, Dorian
- Dewey number
- 823/.912
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6029.R8
- LC item number
- N543 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Orwell, George
- Science fiction, English
- Dystopias in literature
- Totalitarianism in literature
- Label
- The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984, Dorian Lynskey
- Bar code
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- 31223134281469
- 31223134281493
- 31223134281501
- 31223133003963
- 31223134281519
- 31223134281477
- 31223134281485
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-332) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- History stopped -- Utopia fever -- The world we're going down into -- Wells-world -- Radio Orwell -- The heretic -- Inconvenient facts -- Every book is a failure -- The clocks strike thirteen -- Black millennium -- So damned scared -- Orwellmania -- Oceania 2.0 -- Afterword
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- xix, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385544054
- Lccn
- 2019937137
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1101643224
- Label
- The ministry of truth : the biography of George Orwell's 1984, Dorian Lynskey
- Bar code
-
- 31223134281469
- 31223134281493
- 31223134281501
- 31223133003963
- 31223134281519
- 31223134281477
- 31223134281485
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-332) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
- History stopped -- Utopia fever -- The world we're going down into -- Wells-world -- Radio Orwell -- The heretic -- Inconvenient facts -- Every book is a failure -- The clocks strike thirteen -- Black millennium -- So damned scared -- Orwellmania -- Oceania 2.0 -- Afterword
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Extent
- xix, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385544054
- Lccn
- 2019937137
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1101643224
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