Inside The Whale And Other Essays

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781804470107

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Inside the Whale 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. Inside the Whale, the eighth in the Orwell’s Essays series, discusses Henry Miller’s controversial Tropic of Cancer, and considers the driving power behind the great books of the 1930s. Comparing Miller with other literary giants, Orwell lambasts the notion that all literature is good, forcing the reader to think for themselves, with his final words ringing in their ears: ‘five thousand novels are published in England every year and four thousand nine hundred of them are tripe.’

Author : Witi Ihimaera
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152050167

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The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera Pdf

Eight-year-old Kahu, a member of the Maori tribe of New Zealand, fights to prove her love, her leadership, and her destiny when hundreds of whales beach themselves and threaten the future of the Maori tribe. Basis for the 2003 feature film.

Author : Leigh Calvez
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781632171870

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The Breath of a Whale by Leigh Calvez Pdf

From the author of The Hidden Lives of Owls, an exploration of the elusive lives of whales in the Pacific Ocean, home to orcas, humpbacks, sperm, blue, and gray whales. Leigh Calvez has spent a dozen years researching, observing, and probing the lives of the giants of the deep. Here, she relates the stories of nature's most remarkable creatures, including the familial orcas in the waters of Washington State and British Columbia; the migratory humpbacks; the ancient, deep-diving blue whales, the largest animals on the planet. The lives of these whales are conveyed through the work of dedicated researchers who have spent decades tracking them along their secretive routes that extend for thousands of miles, gleaning their habits and sounds and distinguishing peculiarities. The author invites the reader onto a small research catamaran maneuvering among 100-foot long blue whales off the coast of California; or to join the task of monitoring patterns of humpback whale movements at the ocean surface: tail throw, flipper slap, fluke up, or blow. To experience whales is breathtaking. To understand their lives deepens our connection with the natural world.

Author : Rebecca Giggs
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781982120696

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Fathoms by Rebecca Giggs Pdf

Winner of the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about ourselves, our planet, and our relationship with other species. When writer Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beachfront in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales reflect the condition of our oceans. Fathoms: The World in the Whale is “a work of bright and careful genius” (Robert Moor, New York Times bestselling author of On Trails), one that blends natural history, philosophy, and science to explore: How do whales experience ecological change? How has whale culture been both understood and changed by human technology? What can observing whales teach us about the complexity, splendor, and fragility of life on earth? In Fathoms, we learn about whales so rare they have never been named, whale songs that sweep across hemispheres in annual waves of popularity, and whales that have modified the chemical composition of our planet’s atmosphere. We travel to Japan to board the ships that hunt whales and delve into the deepest seas to discover how plastic pollution pervades our earth’s undersea environment. With the immediacy of Rachel Carson and the lush prose of Annie Dillard, Giggs gives us a “masterly” (The New Yorker) exploration of the natural world even as she addresses what it means to write about nature at a time of environmental crisis. With depth and clarity, she outlines the challenges we face as we attempt to understand the perspectives of other living beings, and our own place on an evolving planet. Evocative and inspiring, Fathoms “immediately earns its place in the pantheon of classics of the new golden age of environmental writing” (Literary Hub).

Author : D. Graham Burnett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226081304

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The Sounding of the Whale by D. Graham Burnett Pdf

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Author : Linda Hogan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393072827

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People of the Whale: A Novel by Linda Hogan Pdf

"Deeply ecological, original, and spellbinding." —Booklist, starred review Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth, his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to see tragedy befall the son he left behind.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Classic Literature
ISBN : 3962725318

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Inside the Whale by George Orwell Pdf

Inside the Whale is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940. It is primarily a review of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller with Orwell discoursing more widely over English literature in the 1920s and 1930s. The biblical story of Jonah and the whale is used as a metaphor for accepting experience without seeking to change it, Jonah inside the whale being comfortably protected from the problems of the outside world. (Wikipedia)

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004511940

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Inside the Whale and Other Essays by George Orwell Pdf

In Politics and the English Language, Orwell puts the case for political writers to use plain English and illustrates his point in essays such as England your England and Inside the Whale, while essays on language and literature consider Gulliver's Travels, Tolstoy and King Lear.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1482568969

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Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Pdf

A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris.

Author : Eric Arthur Blair
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547191261

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Inside the Whale and other Essays by Eric Arthur Blair Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Inside the Whale and other Essays" by Eric Arthur Blair. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : epubli
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783753145150

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Inside the Whale and Other Essays by George Orwell Pdf

"Inside the Whale and Other Essays" is a collection of 9 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Included in this collection: - Inside the Whale - Down the Mine - England Your England - Shooting an Elephant - Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool - Politics vs Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels - Politics and the English Language - The Prevention of Literature - Boys' Weeklies

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:636391814

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Inside the Whale and Other Essays by George Orwell Pdf

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314101

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Encyclopedia of the Essay by Tracy Chevalier Pdf

This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies

Author : Richard Hoffpauir
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874133785

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The Art of Restraint by Richard Hoffpauir Pdf

Richard Hoffpauir argues that the works of the best poets have found ways of not capitulating to contemporary reality and outlines the terms of the debate by setting the weaknesses of Yeats against the strenghts of Hardy. Subsequent chapters discuss the nature poetry of Edward thomas; the war poetry of Graves, Blunden, and Gurney; the love poetry of Bridges, Lawrence, and Graves; and the political and social verse of Rickword, Daryush, Betjeman, and Larkin.