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A Clockwork Orange
Category : Classics
Author : Anthony Burgess
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0393312836
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Description : This has always been one of my favorite books. The language that's used helps make Alex's world seem dark and futuristic in a timeless way. And there is nobody more of a punk than Alex. The punks in our world can only dream. If there was one book I would recommend that everybody reads, it would be this one. --Devin
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Devin
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1984
Category : Classics
Author : George Orwell
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0452262933
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Description : "Outside, even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold. Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no color in anything except the posters that were plastered everywhere."
The year is 1984; the scene is London, largest population center of Airstrip One.
Airstrip One is part of the vast political entity Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two other vast entities, Eurasia and Eastasia. At any moment, depending upon current alignments, all existing records show either that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allied with Eastasia, or that it has always been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Winston Smith knows this, because his work at the Ministry of Truth involves the constant "correction" of such records. "'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'"
In 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.
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Kira
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Frankenstein
Category : Classics
Author : Mary Shelley
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0553212478
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Description : This book needs no introductions. Read it for yourself, and see what 17 year old girls could write 200 years ago. Then ask yourself again if you think you can write.
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Steppenwolf
Category : Classics
Author : Hermann Hesse
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0805012478
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Monolycus
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The Brothers Karamazov
Category : Classics
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0374528373
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Description : ". . . Dostoevsky's [world], with . . . its resourceful energies of life and language, is . . . beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader."
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This book added on : 08-Oct-2002 by Monolycus
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Moby-Dick
Category : Classics
Author : Herman Melville
ISBN (No Dashes) : 0671028359
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Description : Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told.
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