1984 Nineteen Eighty Four By George Orwell

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : 42,7 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 : William Collins
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : George Orwell
Publisher : Pretorian Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786197642544

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1984 (Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell) by George Orwell Pdf

"1984 - the novel marking the end of communism." George Orwell's 1984 revolves around Winston Smith, an office worker who performs censorship duties in Oceania's Ministry of Truth as a small cog in the wheel of a monstrous state apparatus. For years, doubts have been gnawing at him about the legitimacy of the system in which even a blink of the eye can cost him his life. The novel begins with the first step towards putting this initially purely intellectual resistance into action: Winston opens a diary. He subsequently falls in love with a young female colleague, and together they begin a love affair that, in the dictatorship that invades every aspect of life, is in itself an act of high treason. Even though they have different views on the society they live in, they are united by the rejection of its narrow moral corset and the desire for individual freedom and, not least, a right to love and feel. While Winston understands HOW the machinery of tyranny works, he does not understand WHY the massive effort of its surveillance and repressive apparatus is undertaken. When they decide to seek contact with the underground opposition and eventually end up in the hands of the repression apparatus of the state, Winston learns the true background of Oceania's society. Until his death, George Orwell was a convinced socialist - all the greater was the effect his work, published in 1949, had on the political left of the time. On the political left, the Soviet Union was seen as the realisation of Marx's ideas, the workers' paradise that would free the enslaved masses from their shackles. Orwell was one of the few leftists of his time who dared to shake this narrative. Under the impression of the undeniable terror of Stalinist rule and its cynical, opportunistic cooperation with fascist and capitalist foreign countries, he criticised the hypocrisy and inhumanities of the real communism with Animal Farm and 1984.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : UOM:39076002001316

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Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell Pdf

Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmare vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life--the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language--and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written. --Amazon.com.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Gardners Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1857151348

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Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell Pdf

A girl whose fortunes have plummeted from wealthy aristocrat to servant-girl. A magic hazel twig. A prince. A desperate escape from danger. This is not the story of a girl whose fairy godmother arranges her future for her. This is the story of Selena, who will take charge of her own destiny, and learn that her magic is not to be feared but celebrated.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551998510

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) by George Orwell Pdf

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." 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. George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century.

Author : D.J. Taylor
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683356844

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On Nineteen Eighty-Four by D.J. Taylor Pdf

The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first. Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell’s 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for it, and a White House spokesperson tells of “alternative facts.” The world we live in is often described as an Orwellian one, awash in inescapable surveillance and invasions of privacy. On Nineteen Eighty-Four dives deep into Orwell’s life to chart his earlier writings and key moments in his youth, such as his years at a boarding school, whose strict and charismatic headmaster shaped the idea of Big Brother. Taylor tells the story of the writing of the book, taking readers to the Scottish island of Jura, where Orwell, newly famous thanks to Animal Farm but coping with personal tragedy and rapidly declining health, struggled to finish 1984. Published during the cold war—a term Orwell coined—Taylor elucidates the environmental influences on the book. Then he examines 1984’s post-publication life, including its role as a tool to understand our language, politics, and government. In a climate where truth, surveillance, censorship, and critical thinking are contentious, Orwell’s work is necessary. Written with resonant and reflective analysis, On Nineteen Eighty-Four is both brilliant and remarkably timely. Praise for On Nineteen Eighty-Four “A lively, engaging, concise biography of a novel.” —Kirkus Reviews “The fascinating origins and complex legacy of this enduring masterwork are chronicled in [this] arresting new book.” —BookPage “Brisk [and] focused. . . . Taylor here covers the highlights, giving both an overview of Orwell’s career and a survey of his greatest literary achievement.” —Wall Street Journal “Taylor is an accomplished literary critic and he illuminates Orwell’s work in the context of his life, elegantly and expertly charting his course from Grub Street to bestsellerdom.” —TheGuardian

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871403292

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Diaries by George Orwell Pdf

A major literary event—the long-awaited publication of George Orwell's diaries, chronicling the events that inspired his greatest works. This groundbreaking volume, never before published in the United States, at last introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books throughout his career, the eleven surviving diaries collected here record Orwell’s youthful travels among miners and itinerant laborers, the fearsome rise of totalitarianism, the horrific drama of World War II, and the feverish composition of his great masterpieces Animal Farm and 1984 (which have now sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author). Personal entries cover the tragic death of his first wife and Orwell’s own decline as he battled tuberculosis. Exhibiting great brilliance of prose and composition, these treasured dispatches, edited by the world’s leading Orwell scholar, exhibit “the seeds of famous passages to come” (New Statesman) and amount to a volume as penetrating as the autobiography he would never write.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002963307

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Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 249170479X

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1984 Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell Pdf

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 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 exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Anaconda Verlag
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783641324421

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Orwell - 1984 by George Orwell Pdf

Orwell's classic in a special hardcover edition with silver foil embossing. London, 1984: Winston Smith, a history falsifier at the Ministry of Truth, falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Julia. Together they begin to question the totalitarian world in which they have functioned until now. George Orwell's vision of a totalitarian state, in which cyber surveillance, historical revisionism and the Thought Police determine the lives of transparent citizens, has only become more urgent to this day. »Who controls the past controls the future.« 1984 Englischsprachige Ausgabe Gerade die jüngere ZG konsumiert zunehmend auf Englisch (Bücher, Serien, Internet...) Pro Jahr werden in Deutschland über 30.000 Exemplare englischer Ausgaben verkauft »Alles, was man über Politik wissen muß, steht meiner Ansicht nach bei George Orwell« Harald Martenstein

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1946-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2382263725

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Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell by George Orwell Pdf

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 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 exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.

Author : George Orwell,Robert Icke,Duncan Macmillan
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822235927

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1984 by George Orwell,Robert Icke,Duncan Macmillan Pdf

Winston Smith, living under the totalitarian rule of the Party, has the idea of writing a diary. It is a crime punishable by death and there is no way of knowing if he is being watched. He imagines two futures—in one, a future readership in a free society think of him as a hero; in the other he is caught, executed and forgotten. Perhaps both things are true. That day, during the obligatory “Two Minutes Hate,” he wondered who else might be harbouring thoughts of rebellion, and who may be working for the Thought Police. Winston starts the diary. He writes the year, so far as he knows it: 1984. This multi-award winning adaptation of George Orwell’s ultimate dystopian novel continues to resonate throughout the world.

Author : Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108841092

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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Nathan Waddell Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.