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Download or read book The Orwell Tour written by Oliver Lewis and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell. Over three years he travelled from Wigan to Catalonia, Paris to Motihari, Marrakesh to Eton, and in each location explored both how Orwell experienced the place, and how the place now remembers him as a literary icon. Beginning in Northern India, where Orwell was born in 1903, and ending in the Oxfordshire village of Sutton Courtenay, where he was laid to rest in 1950, The Orwell Tour offers an accessible and informative new biography of Orwell through the lens of place.
Book Synopsis Ipswich History Tour by : Caleb Howgego
Download or read book Ipswich History Tour written by Caleb Howgego and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of the historic town of Ipswich, showing how the areas you know and love have transformed over the centuries.
Download or read book Orwell's Roses written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography “An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through the life and times of roses.” —Margaret Atwood “A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, parent, and endlessly curious thinker.” —Claire Messud, Harper's “Nobody who reads it will ever think of Nineteen Eighty-Four in quite the same way.” —Vogue A lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded by his passion for the natural world “In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses.” So be-gins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit’s account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell’s life journeys through his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit’s celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell‘s own work as a writer and gardener to encounter photographer Tina Modotti’s roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell’s slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid’s examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes Solnit’s portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
Download or read book The Norfolk Tour written by and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Down and Out in Paris and London by : George Orwell
Download or read book Down and Out in Paris and London written by George Orwell and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through George Orwell's firsthand accounts, readers are exposed to the harsh realities of life as a member of the destitute underclass. Orwell works various menial jobs, as dishwasher and plongeur in Parisian restaurants, and encounters a cast of characters from all walks of life. These include fellow down-and-outs, as well as the exploitative and indifferent employers and landlords who profit from their desperation. Down and Out in Paris and London sheds light on the daily challenges faced by those living in poverty, from the constant struggle to secure food and shelter to the lack of dignity and respect afforded to the working poor. Orwell's experiences also serve as a critique of societal structures and attitudes that perpetuate poverty and inequality, offering insight into the systemic failures that marginalize and oppress the most vulnerable members of society. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.
Book Synopsis Homage to Catalonia by : George Orwell
Download or read book Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell and published by E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting for the POUM militia of the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War. The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for Democratic Socialism, as I understand it." The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling. The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948. A French translation by Yvonne Davet-with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes-in 1938-39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death. Book Summary: Orwell served as a private, a corporal (cabo) and-when the informal command structure of the militia gave way to a conventional hierarchy in May 1937-as a lieutenant, on a provisional basis, in Catalonia and Aragon from December 1936 until June 1937. In June 1937, the leftist political party with whose militia he served (the POUM, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist party) was declared an illegal organisation, and Orwell was consequently forced to flee. Having arrived in Barcelona on 26 December 1936, Orwell told John McNair, the Independent Labour Party's (ILP) representative there, that he had "come to Spain to join the militia to fight against Fascism." He also told McNair that "he would like to write about the situation and endeavour to stir working class opinion in Britain and France." McNair took him to the POUM barracks, where Orwell immediately enlisted. "Orwell did not know that two months before he arrived in Spain, the [Soviet law enforcement agency] NKVD's resident in Spain, Aleksandr Orlov, had assured NKVD Headquarters, 'the Trotskyist organisation POUM can easily be liquidated'-by those, the Communists, whom Orwell took to be allies in the fight against Franco."
Book Synopsis The Norfolk Tour: or, Traveller's Pocket Companion. Being a concise description and present state of all the Noblemens and Gentlemens seats, as well as of the principal towns, and other remarkable places, in the county of Norfolk. Compil'd from the most authentic historians and modern travellers, and corrected to the present time. Edited by Richard Beatniffe by : Richard BEATNIFFE
Download or read book The Norfolk Tour: or, Traveller's Pocket Companion. Being a concise description and present state of all the Noblemens and Gentlemens seats, as well as of the principal towns, and other remarkable places, in the county of Norfolk. Compil'd from the most authentic historians and modern travellers, and corrected to the present time. Edited by Richard Beatniffe written by Richard BEATNIFFE and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Felixstowe History Tour by : Michael Rouse
Download or read book Felixstowe History Tour written by Michael Rouse and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of the historic town of Felixstowe, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.
Download or read book Orwell written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of forty essays written between 1968 and 2009.
Book Synopsis Hands Across the Water by : Peter Baines
Download or read book Hands Across the Water written by Peter Baines and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Baines started his career as a police officer in the streets of Cabramatta in the early nineties. Becoming a specialist in forensic crime scene investigations he was called upon to bring his skills to the Bali bombings in 2002. But it was the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that forever changed the direction of his life. Helping the people of Thailand identify their dead, he met the countless children who had been left behind, orphaned, with nowhere to go. With a colleague he decided to do something, and set about creating the charity Hands Across the Water, building an orphanage and raising funds to support and educate the children. This is Peter's story about how one knockabout Aussie bloke can change the lives of thousands by offering a hand.
Book Synopsis Observations on a Tour Through Almost the Whole of England, and a Considerable Part of Scotland by : Charles Dibdin
Download or read book Observations on a Tour Through Almost the Whole of England, and a Considerable Part of Scotland written by Charles Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forgotten Places written by Nick Lloyd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War, beginning in the 19th century with the conditions and movements which led to the social revolution of 1936, and ending with the fall of the city on 26 January 1939 when Franco's tanks drove down the Diagonal and set about destroying everything the Republic and the revolutionaries had built. Stories from the aftermath of the war, the exile and the Franco regime are also included. In addition with dealing with the more obvious issues such as anarchism, the Spanish Republic, Catalonia, George Orwell, the aerial bombing, and the May Days, etc, the book also looks at themes such as the People's Olympiad, the American Sixth Fleet in the city, Barça, urbanism, Nazis in Barcelona, Robert Capa, the Spanish in the Holocaust, poster art... Intertwined in the text are contemporary quotes and a few personal accounts of people who experienced the war or its aftermath. There are also biographies of figures such as Salvador Seguí, Ramón Mercader, Andreu Nin, Francesc Boix and Lluís Companys.The book is divided into two main sections: a history of the war from the perspective of Barcelona, followed by a guide to related sites which have often been included as an excuse to tell stories or illustrate wider issues. The book ends with an extensive glossary.Nick Lloyd has been running Spanish Civil War tours in Barcelona since 2009.REVIEWS: The Volunteer: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA)"This is a wonderful hybrid of a book. The text tells much about Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War and much else mostly about the radical history of the city. But its other purpose is to be a companion while one is in Barcelona itself to provide information and illumination about the city's terrible, dramatic, and heroic Civil War history." Military History Book Review"Nick Lloyd has produced a brilliant account of a fascinating city and an even more fascinating period of political and social upheaval"
Book Synopsis A Family Tour Trough the British Empire by : Priscilla Wakefield
Download or read book A Family Tour Trough the British Empire written by Priscilla Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by : Clement Cruttwell
Download or read book A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain written by Clement Cruttwell and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The gallery of geography, a tour of the world. 6 divisions by : Thomas Milner
Download or read book The gallery of geography, a tour of the world. 6 divisions written by Thomas Milner and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Family Tour Through the British Empire by : Priscilla Wakefield
Download or read book A Family Tour Through the British Empire written by Priscilla Wakefield and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Observations on a Tour Through Almost the Whole of England by : Charles Dibdin
Download or read book Observations on a Tour Through Almost the Whole of England written by Charles Dibdin and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
