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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Oscar Wilde

Tags: satire society ethics

2005-12-18

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Type: documentary

Status: liked

Authors: John W. Blassingame Frederick Douglass John R. McKivigan Peter P. Hinks Gerald Fulkerson

Tags: history biography historical memoir politics culture society autobiography race persecution civil_rights

2005-12-16

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Type: scientific

Status: to read

Author: Eric Berne

Tags: psychology society sociology social_science

2005-12-16

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: George Orwell

Tags: satire society

Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2005-12-14