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Volume 12, Issue 1
1 January 1984
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Review Article| January 01 1984

A Reader's Guide To George Orwell's 1984 Available to Purchase

Raymond G. McInnis;
Raymond G. McInnis
Head of Reference and Social Sciences Librarian at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2054-1716
Print ISSN: 0090-7324
© MCB UP Limited
1984
Reference Services Review (1984) 12 (1): 89–97.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb048847

Many people fear the approach of 1984. Why? Because in their minds too many of George Orwell's dark prophecies in his 1948 novel, 1984, appear to be coming true.

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