Down With Big Brother

Author : Michael Dobbs
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408851029

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Down with Big Brother by Michael Dobbs Pdf

The author of this volume was present during the final decade of the Soviet empire, first for Reuters, then for the "Washington Post". While Dobbs watched, playwrights and elctricians were transformed into presidents, while Communist Party leaders became jailbirds or newly-minted tycoons. He identifies the seeds of destruction, and shows how Mikhail Gorbachev, in particular, was the unwitting inspiration for the upheaval of the empire, while he thought he could save the Communist Party by reforming it.;Dobbs' conclusion is that though Big Brother may be dead, his dark legacy is still alive in the turbulence in Russia, Romania, Bosnia and other countries that once made up the most brutal empire of the 20th century.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667640549

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Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell Pdf

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. Set in 1930s London. it tells the story of Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy the worship of money and status—and the dismal life that results! Includes a bibliography and brief bio of the author.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781913724306

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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667640570

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A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell Pdf

A Clergyman's Daughter tells the story of Dorothy Hare, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form. Includes a bibliography and brief bio of the author.

Author : Mark Dice
Publisher : Mark Dice
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780967346618

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Big Brother by Mark Dice Pdf

In Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True, Mark Dice details actual NSA high-tech spy systems, mind-reading machines, secret government projects, and emerging artificial intelligence programs that seem as if they came right out of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell’s famous book was first published in 1949, and tells the story of a nightmarish future where citizens have lost all privacy and are continuously monitored by the omniscient Big Brother surveillance system which keeps them obedient to a totalitarian government. The novel is eerily prophetic as many of the fictional systems of surveillance described have now become a reality. Mark Dice shows you the scary documentation that Big Brother is watching you, and is more powerful than you could imagine. - The National Security Agency - Facial Recognition Scanners - Mind Reading Machines - Neural Interfaces - Psychotronic Weapons - Orwellian Government Programs - The Nanny State - Orwellian Weapons - Artificial Intelligence - Cybernetic Organisms - A Closer Look at 1984 - Our Social Structure - The Control of Information - Perpetual State of War - The Personification of the Party - Telescreens - A Snitch Culture - Relationships in Shambles - A Heartless Society - Foreign Countries Painted as Enemies - Power Hungry Officials - An Erosion of the Language - Double Think - And More! By the author of The Illuminati: Facts & Fiction

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781421843575

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Pdf

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called Keep to-morrow dark, and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) Cheat the Prophet. The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun. For human beings, being children, have the childish wilfulness and the childish secrecy. And they never have from the beginning of the world done what the wise men have seen to be inevitable. They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment. Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

Author : Miriam Cohen
Publisher : Star Bright Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1595720073

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My Big Brother by Miriam Cohen Pdf

The narrator of this story idolizes his older brother. But when big brother leaves for the army, the narrator tries his best to fill big brother's shoes for his younger brother.

Author : Elizabeth Anne Suggs,Brandon Prows
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734890525

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Collective Darkness by Elizabeth Anne Suggs,Brandon Prows Pdf

As a child, did you hide under your blankets when you were scared? After reading some of the scariest stories from new up-and-coming authors, we won't blame you if you start hiding again. Take a journey with us into the twisted mind of horror and Editing Mee's first horror story collection. "The Fallout" travels through the unknown, while "Feast" will make you never want to love again. Collective Darkness isn't for the faint of heart. Read... if you dare.

Author : shenita Agee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734926996

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My Big Brother DJ by shenita Agee Pdf

Exceptional DJ is a story told by a little sisters view celebrating her special needs brother. You are invited to follow DJ's life in a series of books about his special needs journey.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:479662546

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Critical Essays by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Orwell,Aldous Huxley,Sinclair Lewis,C. S. Lewis,Jack London,Yevgeny Zamyatin,Owen Gregory,Hugh Benson,H. G. Wells,Ignatius Donnelly,Ernest Bramah,Milo Hastings,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Francis Stevens,Anthony Trollope
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 4059 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026874720

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THE LEAGUE OF BIG BROTHERS - 18 Dystopia Classics in One Volume by George Orwell,Aldous Huxley,Sinclair Lewis,C. S. Lewis,Jack London,Yevgeny Zamyatin,Owen Gregory,Hugh Benson,H. G. Wells,Ignatius Donnelly,Ernest Bramah,Milo Hastings,Arthur Dudley Vinton,Francis Stevens,Anthony Trollope Pdf

When George Orwell gave his famous line "the big brother is watching you!” little would he have imagined that soon enough his prophetic vision will materialise in our everyday lives. In our home, in our streets, in our governments, in our offices, the all-seeing eye of big brother is watching and weighing our every move… This edition thus brings to you the most disturbing dystopias written by the finest authors to make the shivers go down your spine: 1984 (George Orwell) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) It Can't Happen Here (Sinclair Lewis) That Hideous Strength (C. S. Lewis) Iron Heel (Jack London) We (Yevgeny Zamyatin) Meccania the Super-State (Owen Gregory) Lord of the World (Hugh Benson) When The Sleeper Wakes (H. G. Wells) The Time Machine (H. G. Wells) The First Men in the Moon (H. G. Wells) Caesar's Column (Ignatius Donnelly) The Secret of the League (Ernest Bramah) City of Endless Night (Milo Hastings) Looking Further Backward (Arthur Dudley Vinton) The Heads of Cerberus (Francis Stevens) The Fixed Period (Anthony Trollope) Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062199263

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Big Brother by Lionel Shriver Pdf

Big Brother is a striking novel about siblings, marriage, and obesity from Lionel Shriver, the acclaimed author the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. For Pandora, cooking is a form of love. Alas, her husband, Fletcher, a self-employed high-end cabinetmaker, now spurns the “toxic” dishes that he’d savored through their courtship, and spends hours each day to manic cycling. Then, when Pandora picks up her older brother Edison at the airport, she doesn’t recognize him. In the years since they’ve seen one another, the once slim, hip New York jazz pianist has gained hundreds of pounds. What happened? After Edison has more than overstayed his welcome, Fletcher delivers his wife an ultimatum: It’s him or me. Rich with Shriver’s distinctive wit and ferocious energy, Big Brother is about fat: an issue both social and excruciatingly personal. It asks just how much sacrifice we'll make to save single members of our families, and whether it's ever possible to save loved ones from themselves.

Author : Michael Malice
Publisher : Michael Malice
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798366737548

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The White Pill by Michael Malice Pdf

The Russian Revolution was as red as blood. The Bolsheviks promised that they were building a new society, a workers’ paradise that would change the nature of mankind itself. What they ended up constructing was the largest prison that the world had ever seen, a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics that spanned half the globe. It was a country where people's lives meant nothing, less than nothing—and they knew it. But no matter what atrocity that the Soviets committed—the secret police, the torture chambers, the show trials, the labor camps and the mass starvation—there was always someone in the West rushing to justify their bloodshed. For decades it seemed perfectly obvious that the USSR wasn’t going anywhere—until it vanished from the face of the earth, gradually and then suddenly. This is the story of the rise and fall of that evil empire, and why it is so important for the good to never give up hope. This is the white pill.