Author: David Smith
Publisher: Writers & Readers Publishing
ISBN: 9780863160660
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Orwell for Beginners
Author: David Smith
Publisher: Writers & Readers Publishing
ISBN: 9780863160660
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Publisher: Writers & Readers Publishing
ISBN: 9780863160660
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
George Orwell Illustrated
Author: David N. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781608467839
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
George Orwell's story told in full, with a light touch and copious illustrations
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781608467839
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
George Orwell's story told in full, with a light touch and copious illustrations
Nineteen eighty-four
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This is a dystopian social science fiction novel and morality tale. The novel is set in the year 1984, a fictional future in which most of the world has been destroyed by unending war, constant government monitoring, historical revisionism, and propaganda. The totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party and known as Airstrip One, now includes Great Britain as a province. The Party uses the Thought Police to repress individuality and critical thought. Big Brother, the tyrannical ruler of Oceania, enjoys a strong personality cult that was created by the party's overzealous brainwashing methods. Winston Smith, the main character, is a hard-working and skilled member of the Ministry of Truth's Outer Party who secretly despises the Party and harbors rebellious fantasies.
The Prevention of Literature
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 191372431X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
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 The Prevention of Literature, the third in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell considers the freedom of thought and expression. He discusses the effect of the ownership of the press on the accuracy of reports of events, and takes aim at political language, which ‘consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together.’ The Prevention of Literature is a stirring cry for freedom from censorship, which Orwell says must start with the writer themselves: ‘To write in plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly.’ 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 191372431X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
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 The Prevention of Literature, the third in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell considers the freedom of thought and expression. He discusses the effect of the ownership of the press on the accuracy of reports of events, and takes aim at political language, which ‘consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together.’ The Prevention of Literature is a stirring cry for freedom from censorship, which Orwell says must start with the writer themselves: ‘To write in plain vigorous language one has to think fearlessly.’ 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Orwell's Revenge
Author: Peter Huber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501127705
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In alternating chapters of fiction and nonfiction, Huber turns the computer against Orwell's words, reimagining Orwell's 1984 from the computer's point of view, interpolating Huger's own explanations and arguments.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501127705
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
In alternating chapters of fiction and nonfiction, Huber turns the computer against Orwell's words, reimagining Orwell's 1984 from the computer's point of view, interpolating Huger's own explanations and arguments.
Marx's Kapital
Author: David Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780906495834
Category : Marxian economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780906495834
Category : Marxian economics
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140817690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite emerges and the other animals discover that they are not as equal as they thought."
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140817690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite emerges and the other animals discover that they are not as equal as they thought."
Queuing for Beginners
Author: Joe Moran
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847650651
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers - al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, writing emails, shopping, queuing...But we know almost nothing about these activities. Exploring the history of these subjects as they come up during a typical day, starting with eating breakfast and ending with sleeping, Joe Moran tells a story about hidden social and cultural changes in Britain since the Second World War. Drawing on his academic research on everyday life, but writing with wit and lucidity for a popular audience, he shows that we know less about ourselves than we think...
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847650651
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Why do so many people go on about queuing? Have we always been obsessed with traffic? And why do so many of us now eat lunch at our computers - al desko? We spend our days catching buses and trains, writing emails, shopping, queuing...But we know almost nothing about these activities. Exploring the history of these subjects as they come up during a typical day, starting with eating breakfast and ending with sleeping, Joe Moran tells a story about hidden social and cultural changes in Britain since the Second World War. Drawing on his academic research on everyday life, but writing with wit and lucidity for a popular audience, he shows that we know less about ourselves than we think...
English Humour for Beginners
Author: George Mikes
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241978556
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
'To write a book is hard; to write a funny book is harder; to write a funny book both wise and funny is the prerogative of Mr. Mikes' The Times _________________________ If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour. So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour, being witty here is a way of life. Perfectly placed as an adopted Englishman himself, Mikes delivers his shrewd advice - helpfully divided into 'Theory' and 'Practice' - with a comic precision that does his chosen country proud. Drawing on a trove of examples from our rich comic canon, from Orwell ("Every joke is a tiny revolution") to Oscar Wilde, this is the essential handbook for natives and foreigners alike. Mrs Kennedy: "I don't think, Mr Churchill, that I have told you anything about my grandchildren." Winston Churchill: "For which, madam, I am infinitely grateful."
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241978556
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
'To write a book is hard; to write a funny book is harder; to write a funny book both wise and funny is the prerogative of Mr. Mikes' The Times _________________________ If you want to succeed here you must be able to handle the English sense of humour. So proclaims George Mikes' timeless exploration of this curious phenomenon. Whether it's understatement, self-deprecation or plain cruelty, the three elements he identifies as essential to our sense of humour, being witty here is a way of life. Perfectly placed as an adopted Englishman himself, Mikes delivers his shrewd advice - helpfully divided into 'Theory' and 'Practice' - with a comic precision that does his chosen country proud. Drawing on a trove of examples from our rich comic canon, from Orwell ("Every joke is a tiny revolution") to Oscar Wilde, this is the essential handbook for natives and foreigners alike. Mrs Kennedy: "I don't think, Mr Churchill, that I have told you anything about my grandchildren." Winston Churchill: "For which, madam, I am infinitely grateful."
The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
Author: John Rodden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176923X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176923X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
An introductory guide to the life, work and legacy of George Orwell - one of the most influential literary twentieth-century figures.