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Author : J. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137107103
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book A George Orwell Companion written by J. Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521675079
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell written by John Rodden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108841090
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four written by Nathan Waddell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carmel Waldron
Publisher : Oxford University Press - Children
ISBN 13 : 0198368860
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Oxford Literature Companions: Animal Farm written by Carmel Waldron and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular GCSE set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characters, themes, language and contexts, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work with the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828428
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature written by Gregory Claeys and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Author : Godfrey Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The English Companion written by Godfrey Smith and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the heart of revolutionary Spain with George Orwell's powerful account, Homage to Catalonia. In this poignant narrative, Orwell recounts his firsthand experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, offering a vivid and deeply personal perspective on the political and social upheaval of the time. Orwell’s writing brings to life the intense struggles, challenges, and betrayals he witnessed as he joined the militia in Catalonia. With sharp clarity, he paints a stark picture of the ideological divides that tore the country apart, and the complexities of war that blurred the lines between friend and foe.But here's the twist that will captivate you: What does Orwell’s experience reveal about the nature of truth, power, and the human spirit during times of war? Can we learn from the past to avoid repeating its mistakes? This extraordinary memoir offers a rare look into the realities of war, filled with unflinching honesty and a deep sense of humanism. Through Orwell’s eyes, the reader gains an intimate understanding of the personal costs of conflict and the difficult choices soldiers had to make. Are you ready to witness the raw, unfiltered truths of war as seen through the eyes of one of history's most influential writers?Dare to immerse yourself in the brutal honesty of Homage to Catalonia and experience a unique chapter of history that continues to resonate today. Purchase it now, and begin your journey through Orwell’s compelling narrative of war, ideology, and survival.
Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107376874
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell written by John Rodden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language.
Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228418
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Becoming George Orwell written by John Rodden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Loraine Saunders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317012798
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Unsung Artistry of George Orwell written by Loraine Saunders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell's fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell's novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending that Orwell's novels have been undervalued as works of art, she offers extensive textual analysis to reveal an author who is in far more control of his prose than has been appreciated. Persuasively demonstrating that Orwell's novels of the 1930s such as A Clergyman's Daughter and Keep the Aspidistra Flying are no less important as literature than Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, Saunders argues they have been victims of a critical tradition whose practitioners have misunderstood Orwell's narrative style, failed to appreciate Orwell's political stance, and were predisposed to find little merit in Orwell's novels. Saunders devotes significant attention to George Gissing's influence on Orwell, particularly with regard to his representations of women. She also examines Orwell's socialism in the context of the political climate of the 1930s, finding that Orwell, in his successful negotiation of the fine balance between art and propaganda, had much more in common with Charlie Chaplin than with writers like Stephen Spender or W. H. Auden. As a result of Saunders's detailed and accessible analysis, which illuminates how Orwell harmonized allegory with documentary, polyphonic voice with monophonic, and elegy with comedy, Orwell's contributions to the genre of political fiction are finally recognized.
Author : Marcia Aldrich
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820344702
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Companion to an Untold Story written by Marcia Aldrich and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Marcia Aldrich’s friend took his own life at the age of forty-six, they had known each other many years. As part of his preparations for death, he gave her many of his possessions, concealing his purposes in doing so, and when he committed his long-contemplated act, he was alone in a bare apartment. In Companion to an Untold Story, Aldrich struggles with her own failure to act on her suspicions about her friend’s intentions. She pieces together the rough outline of his plan to die and the details of its execution. Yet she acknowledges that she cannot provide a complete narrative of why he killed himself. The story remains private to her friend, and out of that difficulty is born another story— the aftershocks of his suicide and the author’s responses to what it set in motion. This book, modeled on the type of reference book called a “companion,” attempts to find a form adequate to the way these two stories criss-cross, tangle, knot, and break. Organized alphabetically, the entries introduce, document, and reflect upon how suicide is so resistant to acceptance that it swallows up other aspects of a person’s life. Aldrich finds an indirect approach to her friend’s death, assembling letters, objects, and memories to archive an ungrievable loss and create a memorial to a life that does not easily make a claim on public attention. Intimate and austere, clear eyed and tender, this innovative work creates a new form in which to experience grief, remembrance, and reconciliation.
Author : D. J. Taylor
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504015193
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Orwell written by D. J. Taylor and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Julia Golding
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761454403
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (544 download)
Download or read book The Chimera's Curse written by Julia Golding and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantasy series about a secret society sworn to protect mythical creatures and the girl who becomes its most important member.
Author : John R. Hammond
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312324520
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (245 download)
Download or read book A George Orwell Companion written by John R. Hammond and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as giving plots for each of his books, this guide supplies information on themes, characters, and locations.
Author : Bernard Crick
Publisher : Sutherland House Books
ISBN 13 : 9781999439507
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (395 download)
Download or read book George Orwell: a Life written by Bernard Crick and published by Sutherland House Books. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Brian W. Shaffer
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781405167451
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (674 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945 - 2000 written by Brian W. Shaffer and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2007-01-16 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 serves as an extended introduction and reference guide to the British and Irish novel between the close of World War II and the turn of the millennium. Covers a wide range of authors from Samuel Beckett to Salman Rushdie Provides readings of key novels, including Graham Greene’s ‘Heart of the Matter’, Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ and Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Remains of the Day’ Considers particular subgenres, such as the feminist novel and the postcolonial novel Discusses overarching cultural, political and literary trends, such as screen adaptations and the literary prize phenomenon Gives readers a sense of the richness and diversity of the novel during this period and of the vitality with which it continues to be discussed
Author : John Rodden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827766
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell written by John Rodden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions about the man, the writer and his literary legacy. For these reasons, an overview of Orwell's writing and influence is an indispensable resource. Accordingly, this 2007 Companion serves as both an introduction to Orwell's work and furnishes numerous innovative interpretations and fresh critical perspectives on it. Throughout the Companion, which includes chapters dedicated to two of Orwell's major novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, Orwell's work is placed within the context of the political and social climate of the time. His response to the Depression, British imperialism, Stalinism, World War II, and the politics of the British Left are also examined.
