Orwell Seasons Complete Edition
This beautiful edition of George Orwell’s powerful work of dystopian fiction features a leatherette cover, gilt edging, and ribbon marker—a perfect gift for our times. In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. It can monitor all personal communications and access any computer. To preserve the privacy of citizens, human researchers examine the data Orwell finds and decide which pieces of information should be passed on to the security forces, and which should be rejected.Selected from thousands of candidates, you are Orwell’s first human researcher.
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▼Tags ▼LibraryThing Recommendations ▼Member recommendations None Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Showing 1-5 of 9 (next | show all) I studied Animal Farm for my Eng.Lit. GCSE exams, along with MacBeth; my idea of revision was to read both of them five times. This worked reasonably well as I got a B grade. There was an unfortunate side-effect, however; despite liking both I was, after the exams, unable to touch a copy of either without getting the shakes. Fast forward more than 20 years and a discussion here at Goodreads regarding whether Squealer was a 'subtle' (ab)user of language prompts me to finally pick up Animal Farm once more. THIS REVIEW HAS BEEN CURTAILED IN PROTEST AT GOODREADS' CENSORSHIP POLICY See the complete review here: http://arbieroo.booklikes.com/post/334890/post GR Bonus: Have the GR management read this? Do they realise it's satire not an instruction manual? Arbieroo | Jul 17, 2020 | COMING UP FOR AIR: George Bowling is in his forties, fat, works as in insurance inspector for the Flying Salamander, and ives in the suburbs with a wife and two kids. He is, in pretty much every respect, an ordinary lower-middle-class Londoner of the thirties. He wasn’t always, of course. He was born and grew up in a small Thames Valley village, the son of a seed merchant whose business is failing. He leaves school early and goes to work for a local grocer. And then war is declared, and George signs up. He finishes the war as a commissioned officer, which is enough to lift his ambitions above a grocer’s shop. He is, he admits, one of many men who survived the Great War and whose experiences were enough to lift them from working class to the lower rungs of middle class. All this is told to the reader by George in evocative and surprisingly chatty prose – his childhood in Lower Binfield, his aspirations, his current mid-life crisis… And it’s the latter which persuades him to return to Lower Binfield for a visit after twenty-five years away. Naturally, what he finds is not the bucolic village of the turn of the century that he remembers. I took this book with me to Bloodstock, something to read when I needed an occasional time-out from the metal and the beer, and when I started it I wondered if I’d picked a wrong ‘un. The only Orwell I’d read previously was Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, his two most famous works – and Coming Up for Air‘s chatty first-person narrative is nothing like those. But the more I read, the more I found myself fascinated by George Bowling and his life. Orwell paints a picture of a life that is as foreign to me because of the time it’s set as it is because Bowling grew up in a small agricultural village in southern England (ie, not the industrial north). I enjoyed Coming Up for Air a lot more than I’d expected to, and found it a much better book than I’d anticipated. Worth reading. ( ) iansales | Aug 21, 2016 | bought for L. Started Burmese Days last night. ( ) velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 | Contém os romances: Animal Farm Burmese Days A Clergyman's Daughter Coming up for Air Keep the Aspidistra Flying Nineteen Eighty-Four ltrevas | Nov 29, 2012 | George Orwell is the writer that has through his novels, given me enormous insight into my every day life and the society around me. Although his setting is pre-war and post-war Europe, mainly England, he nevertheless seems to reach out to our modern world and strkes a resonating chord. I have read 1984 twice already, I will probably read it a thrid time. But his other novels are equally insightful. It does seem he is a writer who has lived some of what he writes. His books have had a profound influence in my life and have made me see things differently...the modern world in which we live in, is unfortunately a distorted version of 1984..and big brother is a less subtle figurehead than the powers that control our every day actions today. I recommend his works to everyone.. ( ) schtroumpf | Aug 19, 2010 | Showing 1-5 of 9 (next | show all) ▼Published reviews ContainsBurmese Days by George Orwell Coming Up for Air by George Orwell 1984 by George Orwell ▼Common Knowledge
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (2)Described by Anthony Burgess as 'the best-loved of all twentieth-century British writers', George Orwell still has as much power to move, amuse and provoke today. His best known novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four,are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written. The other novels here are also concerned with individuals at odds with repressive institutions- the corrupt imperialism of Burmese Days,disaffection with materialistic society in Keep the Aspidistra Flying,the perils of modern suburban living in Coming up for Airand the down and out girl in A Clergyman's Daughter.They all display Orwell's deep understanding of human nature, his biting humour and great compassion. No library descriptions found. ▼LibraryThing members' description
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Orwell Seasons Complete Edition Series
- v. 1. Down and out in Paris and London
- v. 2. Burmese days
- v. 3. A clergyman's daughter
- v. 4. Keep the aspidistra flying
- v. 5. The road to Wigan Pier
- v. 6. Homage to Catalonia
- v. 7. Coming up for air
- v. 8. Animal farm
- v. 9. Nineteen eighty-four
- v. 10. A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936
- v. 11. Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939
- v. 12. A patriot after all, 1940-1941
- v. 13. All propaganda is lies, 1941-1942
- v. 14. Keeping our little corner clean, 1942-1943
- v. 15. Two wasted years, 1943
- v. 16. I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944
- v. 17. I belong to the Left: 1945
- v. 18. Smothered under journalism, 1946
- v. 19. It is what I think, 1947-1948
- v. 20 Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950.
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- Volume 13 of The Complete Works of George Orwell On 18 August 1941, Orwell joined the BBC's Overseas Service. After a crash training course (the documents for which are reproduced here), he was appointed a Talks Producer responsible for features, talks and commentaries on the war, to be broadcast to India.
- 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of 'negative utopia' a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words.