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Author : Bernard Crick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 014014563X
This is the biography of the English novelist and essayist George Orwell. Orwell is the author of Down and out in Paris, Homage to Catalonia, The Lion and the Unicorn and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780871404626
This compilation of personal letters creates an autobiography of the well-known author of Nineteen Eighty-Four” through his correspondence with other literary luminaries including T.S. Elliot and Henry Miller, as well as letters to complete strangers. 10,000 first printing.
Author : Bernard Crick
Publisher : Sutherland House Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1999439503
"First published by Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, a part of Vintage. Vintage is an imprint of the Penguin Random House Group of companies"--Title page verso.
Author : D. J. Taylor
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 080507693X
Chronicles George Orwell's life-changing service to the British crown in India, the literary world he inhabited, his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and his works.
Author : D. J. Taylor
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504015196
Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: A “profoundly moving [and] definitive” portrait of George Orwell, author of 1984 and larger-than-life literary genius (The Daily Telegraph). It was not easy to bury George Orwell. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, during which he professed no interest in religion and no affiliation with any church, he asked to be buried in an Anglican churchyard—but none would have him. Orwell’s friends fought for him to have a proper grave, however, and the author of 1984, Animal Farm, and Homage to Catalonia, among other brilliant works of prose, poetry, and journalism, was laid to rest in a quiet country cemetery. Almost immediately, his legacy was in dispute. Orwell did not want any biographies written of him, but that has not stopped scholars from trying. Of all those published since the author’s death in 1950, D. J. Taylor’s prize-winning book is considered the most definitive. Born in India, Orwell spent his forty-six years of life traveling the British Empire and confronting the world head on. From the trenches of Spain to the top of bestseller lists, Taylor presents Orwell fully—as a writer, social critic, and human being.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241281956
Personal as well as political, Orwell's letters offer a fascinating window into the mind of a phenomenal man. We are privy to snatched glimpses of his family life: his son Richard's developing teeth, the death of his wife Eileen, and his own illness. Candid portraits of Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, his opinions on bayonets, and on the chaining of German prisoners display his magnificent talent as a political writer, and letters to friends and his publisher provide a unique insight into the development and publication of some of the most important novels in the English language. A Life in Letters features previously unpublished material, including letters which shed new light on a love that would haunt him for his whole life, as well as revealing the inspiration for some of his most famous characters. Presented for the first time in a dedicated volume, this selection of Orwell's letters is an indispensible companion to his diaries.
Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780252035616
Collection of forty essays written between 1968 and 2009.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783753145136
"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 : Sylvia Topp
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783527502
This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. In 1934, Eileen O'Shaughnessy's futuristic poem, 'End of the Century, 1984', was published. The next year, she would meet George Orwell, then known as Eric Blair, at a party. 'Now that is the kind of girl I would like to marry!' he remarked that night. Years later, Orwell would name his greatest work, Nineteen Eighty-Four, in homage to the memory of Eileen, the woman who shaped his life and his art in ways that have never been acknowledged by history, until now. From the time they spent in a tiny village tending goats and chickens, through the Spanish Civil War, to the couple's narrow escape from the destruction of their London flat during a German bombing raid, and their adoption of a baby boy, Eileen is the first account of the Blairs' nine-year marriage. It is also a vivid picture of bohemianism, political engagement, and sexual freedom in the 1930s and '40s. Through impressive depth of research, illustrated throughout with photos and images from the time, this captivating and inspiring biography offers a completely new perspective on Orwell himself, and most importantly tells the life story of an exceptional woman who has been unjustly overlooked.
Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1706042094
Discover the remarkable life of George Orwell...Free BONUS Inside! George Orwell, the son of a British civil servant, spent his life promoting social justice and equality while fighting against totalitarianism and elitism. His two best-known novels, 1984 and Animal Farm, depict the ultimate horror of a totalitarian government. Orwell wrote with passion about what he believed. Eighty years after their publication, his novels are as relevant as ever. Citizens are spied on by CCTV cameras. Smartphones track people's movements and activities. These same citizens give up their privacy not through government force but through the internet and social media. In many ways, Orwell's dystopian future is the present in which we live. Discover a plethora of topics such as Early Life as a Police Officer in Burma Fighting in the Spanish Civil War Orwell during World War II Animal Farm and 1984 Late Life and Death And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on George Orwell, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269
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 Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691228419
The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation, let alone the greatest imaginative writer of English prose fiction. Yet his influence since his death at midcentury is incomparable. No other writer has aroused so much controversy or contributed so many incessantly quoted words and phrases to our cultural lexicon, from “Big Brother” and “doublethink” to “thoughtcrime” and “Newspeak.” Becoming George Orwell is a pathbreaking tour de force that charts the astonishing passage of a litterateur into a legend. Rodden presents the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four in a new light, exploring how the man and writer Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, came to be overshadowed by the spectral figure associated with nightmare visions of our possible futures. Rodden opens with a discussion of the life and letters, chronicling Orwell’s eccentricities and emotional struggles, followed by an assessment of his chief literary achievements. The second half of the book examines the legend and legacy of Orwell, whom Rodden calls “England’s Prose Laureate,” looking at everything from cyberwarfare to “fake news.” The closing chapters address both Orwell’s enduring relevance to burning contemporary issues and the multiple ironies of his popular reputation, showing how he and his work have become confused with the very dreads and diseases that he fought against throughout his life.
Author : Dennis Glover
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781863959377
Author : Audrey Coppard,Bernard Crick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UOM:39015008176011
Author : Nigel Flynn
Publisher : Rourke Publishing (FL)
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 086593018X
Traces the life of the English author and social critic and provides critical interpretations of his controversial works.