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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices
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On 1/4/2026 9:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

You've got the same edition that was assigned in English class at
my boarding school - about 7th grade level. I read it then.

Its interesting to compare it to Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 novel "We",
from which it draws a lot of plot elements.

"We" also seems to be the inspiration for Ayn Rand's "Anthem".

Wikipedia lists 8 books as derivative, some of which appear to
be stretch.

pt
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In article <10je8h1$26698$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 1/4/2026 9:12 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

You've got the same edition that was assigned in English class at
my boarding school - about 7th grade level. I read it then.

Its interesting to compare it to Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1921 novel "We",
from which it draws a lot of plot elements.

As I recall, Orwell reviewed We.
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James Nicoll wrote:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

Your remark questioning whether anything reported outside of England
actually exists is interesting. Never occured to us (we read 1984 in
school some 45 years ago).

-is
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In article <slrn10llche.1s8.u502sou@eva.bnhb484.de>,
Ignatios Souvatzis <u502sou@bnhb484.de> wrote:

James Nicoll wrote:

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

True love blooms in authoritarian Airstrip One.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/when-spring-rejoices

Your remark questioning whether anything reported outside of England
actually exists is interesting. Never occured to us (we read 1984 in
school some 45 years ago).

My speculation (a co-worker and I discussed this several decades ago) is
that there was but one government, it ruled the entire world and there
was no war. My co-worker suggested that while there was but one
government, perhaps armies were still fighting.
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