This Day in History: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on this day in 1949. Few books have had a greater cultural impact than this one book. For instance, it gave added terms to the English language such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, prole, memory hole and Orwellian. It also had one of the greatest opening lines of any novel, "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984 remains one of my favorite works of fiction, alongside Atlas Shrugged, the Fountainhead, Anthem, Kane and Abel, Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, The Count of Monte Cristo, Master of the Game, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Great Expectations, etc.
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Listen to the entire audiobook of Orwell's 1984, something I recommend everyone read, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scqLliarGpM
Read or download 1984 at https://archive.org/details/Orwell1984preywo
Watch Christopher Hitchens on Why Orwell Matters at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY5Ste5xRAA
Read: 1984 The Book That Killed George Orwell By Robert McCrum
Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell by Jeff Riggenbach (1903–1950) Audio at https://mises.org/library/eric-arthur-blair-aka-george-orwell-1903%E2%80%931950
(George Orwell presents us with yet another case of a writer who was not himself a libertarian as we understand the term today, but whose last two novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, have earned him a place in the libertarian tradition.)
Read transcript at https://mises.org/library/brilliant-confused-radicalism-george-orwell
Orwell’s Big Brother: Merely Fiction? by Murray N. Rothbard
What was Ayn Rand’s stance on George Orwell’s famous novel 1984? by Leonard Peikoff (podcast)
My hero: George Orwell by John Carey
Orwell was a truth-teller whose courage and sense of social justice made him a secular saint By John Carey
The Connection Between George Orwell and Friedrich Hayek-A tale of two anti-authoritarians by Sheldon Richman
Orwell's 1984 Still Matters, Though Not in the Way You Might Think
A Washington, D.C., readathon reminds us that the left once hated this anti-totalitarian classic. by Charles Paul Freund
From Spencer's 1884 to Orwell's 1984 by Henry Hazlitt
John Stossel: Orwell's Animal Farm & The Political Class
5 Ways George Orwell's 1984 Has Come True Since It Was Published 67 Years Ago by Tyler Durden
From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Sheldon Richman
From ‘1984’ to ‘Atlas Shrugged’: When the News Boosts Book Sales By Emily Temple
Ayn Rand and "1984"
Discussion: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell with Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio
The genius of George Orwell by Jeremy Paxman
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