title: Nineteen Eighty-Four / Animal Farm
author:  George Orwell 
description: 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.
zlib_text: NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
  GEORGE ORWELL
  
  PART I
  I
  It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were
  striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his
  breast in an eﬀort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly
  through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not
  quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from
  enteringalong with him.
  The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.
  At one end of it a coloured poster,too large for indoor
  display, had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an
  enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man
  of about forty-ﬁve, with a heavy black moustache and
  ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It
  was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was
  seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut
  oﬀ during daylight hours. It was part of the economy drive in
  preparation for Hate Week. The ﬂat was seven ﬂights up,
  and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer
  above his