BOOK in Classic Quotes

1  It was a peculiarly beautiful book.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  He could guess, however, that the book was much older than that.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

3  When you have read the book, you will be full members of the Brotherhood.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8

4  But it had also been suggested by the book that he had just taken out of the drawer.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

5  He picked up the children's history book and looked at the portrait of Big Brother which formed its frontispiece.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

6  He sat staring at the marbled cover of the book, trying without success to shut the voice out of his consciousness.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

7  He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  It had been a sufficiently rash act to buy the book in the beginning, and he had sworn never to come near the place again.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

9  But, he realized, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

10  From the table drawer he took out a penholder, a bottle of ink, and a thick, quarto-sized blank book with a red back and a marbled cover.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  Later I shall send you a book from which you will learn the true nature of the society we live in, and the strategy by which we shall destroy it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8

12  Suddenly the passage from the history book that he had copied into his diary came back into Winston's mind, and a lunatic impulse took hold of him.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

13  The alley led out into the main street, and down the next turning, not five minutes away, was the junk-shop where he had bought the blank book which was now his diary.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

14  There were also whispered stories of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  With the tip of his finger he picked up an identifiable grain of whitish dust and deposited it on the corner of the cover, where it was bound to be shaken off if the book was moved.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

16  Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5

17  Meanwhile I shall send you a copy of THE BOOK'--even O'Brien, Winston noticed, seemed to pronounce the words as though they were in italics--'Goldstein's book, you understand, as soon as possible.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8