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Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading, reading or sharing them. The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws , but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labour camp.

Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off. The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.

Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write which was of course impossible for his present purpose. He dipped the pen into the ink and then faltered for just a second.

A tremor had gone through his bowels. After meeting Julia, and being invited to secret meetings by his superior O'Brien, hope springs up in Winston that the state can be overthrown. At the heart of it, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a supremely depressing novel, but one that remains as a warning as we see parallels to current real life instances of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression. The artwork used for the cover is 'Abstract portrait' by Theo van Doesburg.

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