( 1984 )Nineteen Eighty-Four. George Orwell by George Orwell EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author Name: George Orwell
- Book Genre: Classics, Dystopia, Fiction, Science Fiction
- ISBN # 9781906147440
- Date of Publication: 1949-6-8
- PDF File Size: 1.3 MB
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking
thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an
eort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass
doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent
a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one
end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been
tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more
than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-ve, with a
heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features.
Winston
made for the stairs. It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best
of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric
current was cut o during daylight hours. It was part of the
economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The at was seven
ights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose
ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on
the way. On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with
the enormous face gazed from the wall.
It was one of those
pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about
when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption
beneath it ran.
Inside the at a fruity voice was reading out a list of gures
which had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The
voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror
which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston
turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words
were still distinguishable.
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