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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of personal letters creates an autobiography of the author of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" through his correspondence with other literary luminaries, including T.S. Eliot and Henry Miller, as well as letters to complete strangers.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. "In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses." That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's...
Author
Language
English
Description
"At age nineteen, young Eton graduate Eric Blair set sail for India, dreading the assignment ahead. Along with several other young conscripts, he would be trained for three years as a servant of the British Empire, overseeing the local policemen in Burma. Navigating the social, racial, and class politics of his fellow British at the same time as he learned the local languages and struggled to control his men would prove difficult enough. But doing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War.
In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish Republic battle a military coup led by General Francisco Franco and backed by Hitler and Mussolini. Some foreigners flocking to Spain had come for another reason:...
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"En el ano 1984, Londres es una ciudad lugubre en la que la Policia del Pensamiento controla de forma asfixiante la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith es un peon de este engranaje perverso y su cometido es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la version oficial de los hechos. Hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que los gobierna y somete. El artista grafico Fido Nesti reelabora en estas paginas la obra...
11) 1984: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
[1977]
Language
English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...
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