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Volume: 2General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1864Original Publisher: T. Murray and sonSubjects: Lanarkshire, ScotlandLanarkshire (Scotland)History / Europe / Great BritainTravel / Europe / Great BritainNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: LANARK PARISHWas described, in 1793, by Lockhart of Baronald as consisting of " pretty flat and improvable land, but along the Clyde, from Bonniton Fall downwards, for the space of more than three miles, the banks are high, precipitous, and rocky; which, however, are pretty generally fringed with natural wood and planting. The banks of the Mouse, the only other river of any size, and which, running from east to west, separates the parish into two distinct parts, are equally precipitous, but are also clothed with natural wood and plantations of forest trees." The district so described in the Old Statistical Account of Scotland is, in its main features, like what it was seventy years ago; but the parish is more populous, the burgh more important, in the Ward at least, and its outskirts warmly settled with villa-like abodes and rich surroundings, not often met with near towns of the size.The statist referred to writes well but cautiously, stating that the parish " may contain about 6000 acres; 600 of coppice and wood, 1800 of moor, and about 3600 of arable." Ordnance figures report, and they leave no room for the word " may," the wood, moor, arable, and total, as 1500, 1200, 7200=10560 -- the 600 odd acres being accounted for by space occupied by houses, roads, railway, rivers, etc.; so that, making due allowance for the guess estimate of 1793 and the exact figures recently published, the parish has evidently made a large stride in i... ... Read more

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Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, and the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English Language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's story of Winston Smith's fight against the all-pervading party has become a classic, not the least because of its intellectual coherence.Amazon.com Review
Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, NineteenEighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristicpurgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers politicalsatirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucraticworld and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance ofthe novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television,the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thoroughversion of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, itranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. ... Read more

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Classic reading
Read it in high school enjoyed it then, and with all the unrest in society today, bought it for my collection, it's scary how close it is to actually occuring.

1984- More than just philospohy
When you finish reading 1984, you don't know what to do with yourself for the next couple of hours. The themes of the novel are so thought provoking and powerful that it leaves you stupefied. However, the book is more than just a philosophical message. One of the reasons that Orwell's message is so powerful is because the characters are rich and the plot (forbidden love in a loveless world) is captivating. Not onlydid Orwell have some incredibly penetrating ideas, but he knew how to express them in a very well written story. 5 out of 5!

1984
America's Galactic Foreign Legion: Book 1: Feeling Lucky (Volume 1)

I can't believe they still force kids in school to read this book.That probably accounts a lot for sales.But, I'll admit it is a good book well worth reading.I just don't like being forced.

Depressing stuff
Depressing stuff and quite emotional, considering that I have experienced some of this dismal world for 18 years (xUSSR). On the other hand it is very much up-to-date. People are getting brainwashed today. Yesterday, absolutely everybody believed in Global Warming and if you didn't you were an enemy. Then in a blink of an eye Global Warming mutated into Climate Change. Again, everybody believes in it. They don't understand it, but they believe in it. They don't question it. They no longer have an ability/brain power to do it. They blindly believe/trust someone who allegedly knows more. Some who have retained the ability to question are the enemies. How many scientist who dared to voice their disbelieve in Global Warming were booed down by their colleagues and had to quit?

It is but one example.
That's life, isn't it?

A Double-plus-good Meditation on the Inherent Stupidity of the Modern World
Dear Reader,

If you enjoy stories featuring time travel, candy, teddy bears, light humor, or Beethoven and ultraviolence, I'm afraid you are looking at the wrong book altogether.NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, I am sad to say, has none of these in its several hundred dreadful pages.It does, however, discuss such terrible things as Big Brother; Winston Smith; varicose ulcers; Doublethink, or self-distortion of reality; Newspeak, a language developed for the destruction of self-expression and filtering of speakers' thoughts; Julia, Winston's girlfriend; telescreens; Room 101; and rats.I can see already that you are terrified by my brief description of this book, so let me suggest that you promptly look for something less depressing, such as the delightful A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

With all due respect,
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