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False Freedom and Orwell’s Faust-Book Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell the novelist is best known as the man who writes on human hopes for life on this planet under the rule of Man, and gives them a bad report. Men ruled in the name of Man, he says, are robbed of freedom and human decency.

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  1. Gerald A. Morgan
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  1. Simon Fraser University, Canada

    Peter Buitenhuis (Professor of English) (Professor of English)

  2. University of British Columbia, Canada

    Ira B. Nadel (Professor of English) (Professor of English)

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Morgan, G.A. (1988). False Freedom and Orwell’s Faust-Book Nineteen Eighty-Four . In: Buitenhuis, P., Nadel, I.B. (eds) George Orwell: A Reassessment. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19587-9_5

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