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Hong Kong Examination and Assessment Authority
2007 HKCEE English Language Recommended texts for the School-based Assessment (SBA) component


 

Title:
  Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author:
  George Orwell
Level:
 
Genre:
  Adventure
Classics
Film/TV tie-ins
Politics, religion and society
Science fiction and fantasy
Category:
  Print fiction

About the book:
  This story is set in the future, and describes a life in which everyone is watched, and cannot do what they want to. Although it is not an easy read, this makes you think a lot.
     
Web links:


George Orwell web resources
www.netcharles.com/orwell/books.htm#1984

BBC biography of George Orwell
www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/
art/orwell_01.shtml

Encyclopedia entry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Film version
www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/

     
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