Hope Lies In The Proles

Author : John Newsinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0745399290

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Hope Lies in the Proles by John Newsinger Pdf

George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood.Hope Lies in the Proles offers a sympathetic yet critical account of Orwell's political thinking and its continued significance today. John Newsinger explores various aspects of Orwell's politics, detailing Orwell's attempts to change working-class consciousness, considering whether his attitude towards the working class was romantic, realistic or patronising - or all three at different times. He also asks whether Orwell's anti-fascism was eclipsed by his criticism of the Soviet Union, and explores his ambivalent relationship with the Labour Party. Newsinger also breaks important new ground regarding Orwell's shifting views on the USA, and his relationship with the New Left and feminism.Focusing on the enduring interest in Orwell and his influence on current political causes, the book is ultimately a unique, nuanced attempt to demonstrate that Orwell remained a committed socialist up until his death.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write 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 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 Newsinger
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031222009X

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Orwell's Politics by John Newsinger Pdf

A study of George Orwell's political ideas and beliefs from his time as a policeman in Burma through to the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four,"

Author : John Newsinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786802201

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Hope Lies in the Proles by John Newsinger Pdf

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Random House
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409018735

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The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler Pdf

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life. The Invisible Writing picks up where the first volume, Arrow in the Blue, ended, with Koestler joining the Communist Party. This second volume goes on to detail some of the most important, gruelling and electrifying experiences in his life. This book tells of Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. It tells of how he survived in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France and ends with his escape in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a new home.

Author : Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,8 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.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : David Brin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061795343

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Foundation's Triumph by David Brin Pdf

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the highwater marks of science fiction.The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many themes of modern science fiction.Now, with the approval of the Asimov estate, three of today's most acclaimed authors have completed the epic the Grand Master left unfinished. The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, telling the origins of Hari Seldon, the Foundation's creator. Greg Bear's Foundation and Chaos relates the epic tale of Seldon's downfall and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin's Foundation's Triumph, Seldon is about to escape exile and risk everything for one final quest-a search for knowledge and the power it bestows. The outcome of this final journey may secure humankind's future-or witness its final downfall...

Author : Kath Filmer-Davies
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879725540

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Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature by Kath Filmer-Davies Pdf

Filmer argues that, in secular society, the psychological need to hope is met in the literature of fantasy. She illustrates her thesis using the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Peter Beagle, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, George Orwell, Russell Hoban, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alan Garner, Ursula LeGuin, and Patricia Wrightson. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : David W. Lovell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317497776

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Marx's Proletariat (RLE Marxism) by David W. Lovell Pdf

George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty Four that ‘If there is hope, it lies in the proles.’ A century earlier Marx was unequivocal: the future belonged to the proletariat. Today such confidence might seem misplaced. The proletariat has not yet fulfilled Marx’s expectations, and seems unlikely ever to do so. How could Marx have entertained the notion that the proletariat would emancipate humanity from capitalism and from class rule itself? This book, first published in 1988, attempts an explanation by examining the sources and development of Marx’s concept of the proletariat. It contends that this was not only a crucial element in Marx’s theory but a significant departure in socialist thought. By examining this concept in detail the book uncovers a major contradiction in Marxian thought: although the proletariat is assigned a momentous task it is chiefly depicted as the class of suffering which is why, historically, it has preferred security to enterprise.

Author : George Sandison
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781907389535

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2084 by George Sandison Pdf

In 1948 Orwell saw a world in flux, at risk of losing liberty so recently won. In response he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, a prophetic book. Now, in 2017, the themes are still with us.This anthology of new short stories draws together leading science fiction writers - famous for their visions of our near future - and asks them to look into our future, to the year 2084.Put humanity on trial as the oceans rise. Slip over borders in a Balkanised Europe. Tread the bizarre streets of cities ruled by memes. See the world through the eyes of drones. Say goodbye to your body as humanity merges with technology.Warnings or prophesies? The path to Paradise or destruction? Will we be proud of what we have achieved, in 2084?Our future unfolds before us.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Secker
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1846559480

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I Have Tried to Tell the Truth by George Orwell Pdf

Orwell served as Literary Editor of Tribune from 29 November 1943 until he went to Continental Europe as War Correspondent for the Observer and the Manchester Evening News in mid February 1945. He continued to write for Tribune until 4 April 1947, when his eightieth 'As I Please' appeared. This column is now, in this edition, printed without cuts. In these thirteen months Orwell reviewed 86 books and he wrote essays on Twain, Smollett, Thackeray, and The Vicar of Wakefield. It was a period in which several important essays appeared, but perhaps the most intriguing is one that has previously neither been accredited to him nor reprinted: 'Can Socialists Be Happy?', written under the pseudonym, John Freeman. Four 'London Letters' were contributed to Partisan Review. The English People, though not publlished until 1947, is included in this volume. Although this was one of his books that Orwell did not want reprinted, it still reads well.

Author : Richard Lance Keeble
Publisher : Theschoolbook.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1845497864

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Orwell's Moustache by Richard Lance Keeble Pdf

Over 70 years since his death, George Orwell - author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, essayist and activist journalist of the left - remains one of the most significant and popular writers of the last century. Here, in a collection of recent original, entertaining and often controversial essays, Richard Lance Keeble throws new insights on Orwell - the man, his writings, his life and his first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy. Topics include: the politics of dress and undress, representations of fatherhood, advertisements and the political economy of the media, Orwell and Evelyn Waugh, his surprising, life-long love of D. H. Lawrence's writings, the importance and delight of the domestic diaries, Orwell and the theatre, how Eileen saved his life during 1938 flu epidemic, Eton and the 'invisible masonic network of support'. Richard Lance Keeble is one of our leading authorities on George Orwell. Everything he writes is essential reading for anyone interested in the man, his writings and his times. The essays collected in this volume are insightful, informative and often entertaining as well, a rare combination. John Newsinger, author of Hope Lies in the Proles Once again Prof. Keeble has come up with some fascinating insights into the world of George Orwell. Richard Blair, Patron of The Orwell Society Keeble has skilfully broadened our appreciation of Orwell's wide-ranging interests, along with delightful eccentricities, that other scholars have traditionally glossed over. Sylvia Topp, author of Eileen: The Making of George Orwell Orwell's Moustache confirms Richard Keeble's reputation as one of Orwell's most acute and knowledgeable readers, reinventing for the twenty-first century a man we think we know: the always compelling, always contradictory figure of George Orwell whose passions, obsessions, strengths and secrets here assume new meanings through analysis of everything from Orwell's dress to his father, his wife, his jokes, his diet, his fishing, and of course, his writing and politics. Kristin Bluemel, Monmouth University, NJ A brilliant and consistently original assortment of responses to the always surprising complexity of Orwell's obsessions, familiar and unfamiliar - from his love of fishing, to his enduring concern with the politics of food, to the delights of recording small things in small ways in small diary entries, and much more besides. This is imaginative and in the best sense sympathetic criticism written by one of today's leading Orwell scholars. Nathan Waddell, University of Birmingham