Orwell uses the device of quoting from several books in Nineteen Eighty Four in order to create the impression of an authoritarian state in the background. First there is the so called underground book that circulates amongst the freedom fighters and written by "Goldstein" (based on Trotsky). Winston eventually learns that this book is actually written by the Ministry of Truth and circulated to control dissident thinking. At the end he quotes from a dictionary of Newspeak which again is designed to control thought (see his essay on Politics and the English Language.)
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