1984 By George Orwell

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547249643

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1984 by George Orwell Pdf

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece, “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s novel remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783753145136

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Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Pdf

"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel", often published as "1984", is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a totalitarian superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with a colleague, Julia, and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Enrich Spot Limited
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9789881235602

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1984 by George Orwell Pdf

1984 is a dystopian novel by English author George Orwell published in 1949. ?The novel is set in Airstrip One, a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. It is dictated by a political system named English Socialism under the control of the Inner Party, that persecutes individualism and independent thinking. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory holes, have entered into common use since its publication. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels.

Author : Dorian Lynskey
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385544061

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The Ministry of Truth by Dorian Lynskey Pdf

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.” --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop. 1984 isn't just a novel; it's a key to understanding the modern world. George Orwell's final work is a treasure chest of ideas and memes--Big Brother, the Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, 2+2=5--that gain potency with every year. Particularly in 2016, when the election of Donald Trump made it a bestseller ("Ministry of Alternative Facts," anyone?). Its influence has morphed endlessly into novels (The Handmaid's Tale), films (Brazil), television shows (V for Vendetta), rock albums (Diamond Dogs), commercials (Apple), even reality TV (Big Brother). The Ministry of Truth is the first book that fully examines the epochal and cultural event that is 1984 in all its aspects: its roots in the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it; the personal experiences in wartime Great Britain that Orwell drew on as he struggled to finish his masterpiece in his dying days; and the political and cultural phenomena that the novel ignited at once upon publication and that far from subsiding, have only grown over the decades. It explains how fiction history informs fiction and how fiction explains history.

Author : Dennis Glover
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781863959377

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The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover Pdf

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432838474

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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783753145112

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Coming Up for Air by George Orwell Pdf

"Coming Up for Air" is the seventh book by English writer George Orwell, published in June 1939 by Victor Gollancz. It was written between 1938 and 1939 while Orwell spent time recuperating from illness in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh. He delivered the completed manuscript to Victor Gollancz upon his return to London in March 1939. The story follows George Bowling, a 45-year old husband, father, and insurance salesman, who foresees World War II and attempts to recapture idyllic childhood innocence and escape his dreary life by returning to Lower Binfield, his birthplace. The novel is comical and pessimistic, with its view that speculative builders, commercialism, and capitalism are killing the best of rural England and the existence of new, external threats.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0241436524

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Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Graphic Novel by George Orwell Pdf

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker, Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal.

Author : Andrew Ervin
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616954956

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Burning Down George Orwell's House by Andrew Ervin Pdf

A darkly comic novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality—or lack thereof—and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch. But a few of the islanders take a decidedly shallow view of a foreigner coming to visit in order to sort himself out, and Ray quickly finds himself having to deal with not only his own issues but also a community whose eccentricities are at times amusing and at others downright dangerous. Also, the locals believe—or claim to believe—that there’s a werewolf about, and against his better judgment, Ray’s misadventures build to the night of a traditional, boozy werewolf hunt on the Isle of Jura on the summer solstice.

Author : James Decker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350317772

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Ideology by James Decker Pdf

This concise introduction to the concept of ideology provides an overview of the term and considers its impact on literary theory. James M. Decker analyzes the history of Western ideology from its pre-Enlightenment roots to its current incarnations, providing readers with both an essential overview of key terms and issues and a thoughtful assessment of some of the important critical thinkers associated with the notion, including Marx, Gramsci and Althusser. Ideological theories are introduced within three broad categories - the subjective, the institutional and the political - which helps students to synthesize a concept that sprawls across the traditional disciplinary lines of philosophy, politics, economics, history and cultural and literary studies. Close readings of key texts demonstrate the impact of ideology on critical practice and literary reputation. Texts include: - Toni Morrison's Sula - William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' - George Orwell's 1984 Compact and easy-to-follow, Decker's study finally asks: are we now in a 'post-ideological' era?

Author : Lawrence Leshan
Publisher : Allworth Communications, Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1581152388

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The Psychology of War by Lawrence Leshan Pdf

Our wars have become more lethal, yet the affinity for war hasn't changed. Why? As the entire world anticipates a lengthy war against terrorism, this intriguing study provides a new understanding of why people fight wars so frequently and ferociously. Former military psychologist Lawrence LeShan's piercing analysis reveals why war is often chosen over more peaceful solutions, and why it is so easy to get into a war and so hard to get out. Can peace be planned? How can we devise an "early warning system" for war? Are some government structures more prone to war than others?

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 138201368X

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Essential Student Texts: Animal Farm by George Orwell Pdf

Dreaming of a life of freedom and equality, the animals of Manor Farm stage an uprising against their negligent human master, Mr Jones. However, their dream rapidly turns sour and most of the animals don't realise that one form of tyranny has replaced another until it is too late. This edition comes with accessible and informative notes.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008460981

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Animal Farm and 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Pdf

Two modern classics in one volume.

Author : William Schnabel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1975645324

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George Orwell's 1984 by William Schnabel Pdf

William Schnabel's George Orwell's 1984 is a literary analysis of George Orwell's most widely read novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. William Schnabel's book defines totalitarianism, discusses the composition of the novel, the sources Orwell used to write Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell's autobiographical experience, the theme of hate in the novel, the mutability of history, language in Oceania, Big Brother and Joseph Stalin, Emmanuel Goldstein, the proles (the lower classes), and the two lovers, Winston Smith and Julia. The book includes an introduction, a conclusion, a bibliography, and an index. George Orwell's 1984 is intended to be a literary guide for all readers, young or old, for a deeper understanding of Orwell's most important work. No prior knowledge of Nineteen Eighty-Four is necessary.

Author : Eleanor Wachtel
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Authors
ISBN : UCSC:32106011501944

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Writers & Company by Eleanor Wachtel Pdf