and cheekbones was coarsely red, even the bald scalp was too deep a pink. A waiter, again unbidden, brought the chessboard and the current issue of...

you promised me.' Winston found and handed over two creased and filthy notes, which Parsons entered in a small notebook, in the neat ...

had had with O'Brien, on the night when he had enrolled himself in the Brotherhood. He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to...

when Julia was at school, it was already claiming the aeroplane; one generation more, and it would be claiming the steam engine.) And when he told ...

passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith. The street into which he had turned ran downhill. He had a feeling that he had been in this...

and fell apart, easily, as though the book had passed through many hands. The inscription on the title-page ran: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ...

member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies ...

that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the...

of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases -- to do anything which is likely to cause...

still the normal means of communication, the danger theoretically existed that in using Newspeak words one might remember their original meanings. In practice...

was all as yielding as water. Their mouths clung together; it was quite different from the hard kisses they had exchanged earlier. When they moved their...

was after twenty-two hours when he got back to the flat. The lights would be switched off at the main at twenty-three thirty. He went into the kitchen and ...

Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie. It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party ...

progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for the diminution of human liberty. In all the useful arts the world is either standing...

corner almost motionless, never speaking. Uncommanded, the waiter brought fresh glasses of gin. There was a chessboard on the table beside them, with the...

of falsifying the past were obvious, but the ultimate motive was mysterious. He took up his pen again and wrote: I understand HOW: I do not understand...

you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith. The...

the bottom of a passage the smell of roasting coffee -- real coffee, not Victory Coffee -- came floating out into the street. Winston paused ...

his mind, ready made as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had recently died in battle, in heroic circumstances. There were occasions ...

selling tired-looking vegetables. At this moment Winston remembered where he was. The alley led out into the main street, and down the next turning, not...