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Upon its release, Fahrenheit 451 was a critical success, albeit with notable dissenters; the novel's subject matter led to its censorship in apartheid South Africa and various schools in the United States. In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal.
The Memory Police (Japanese: 密やかな結晶, Hepburn: Hisoyaka na Kesshō, "Secret Crystallization" or "Quiet Crystallization") [3] is a 1994 science fiction dystopian novel by Yōko Ogawa. [4] The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a manner influenced by modernist writer Franz Kafka , takes place on an island with a setting ...
The McDonaldization of Society, by George Ritzer, 1993. An excellent sociological analysis of how modern society is sacrificing quality and diversity for convenience and standardization. [17] Chaos and Cyber Culture, by Timothy Leary, 1994. Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, by Fritz Perls, ISBN 0-911226-02-8; Hippies from A to Z, by Skip Stone, 1999
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The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism is a fictional book in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (written in 1949). The fictional book was supposedly written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the principal enemy of the state of Oceania's ruling party (The Party).
The series is presented by Greg Edwards in character as Sparky Sweets, Ph.D; the character hosts the series in an "original gangster" style.[7]The following is an example of Sweets' style from his analysis of To Kill a Mockingbird, one of his most popular: [7] "Only a jive-ass fool would bother capping a mockingbird, 'cause all them bitches do is just drop next-level beats for your enjoyment.
A companion to novel Fahrenheit 451, it was later released under the Harper Perennial imprint of HarperCollins publishing was in 2011. [1] Portions of A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories were previously published in the collection Match to Flame: The Fictional Paths to Fahrenheit 451 and the chapbook The Dragon Who Ate His Tail.
In 1998, assisted by his wife, Sheila Davison, and Ian Angus [8] he edited the 20-volume The Complete Works of George Orwell (Secker & Warburg, 1998). [9] In 2012 Davison announced the launch of The Orwell Society [10] and was made an honorary founding member the following year. In 2013, he edited Orwell's Diaries [11] [12] and Orwell: A Life ...