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Orwell Subverted: The CIA and the Filming of Animal Farm
Daniel J. LeabORWELL AND ANIMAL FARM The CIA was attracted to George Orwell because of his political slant and antitotaritarian novels. Orwell had become an icon of the anti-Soviet, anti- Stalinist Left. His friend George Woodcock, the anarchist ...
George Orwell, Updated Edition
PreviewPresents a collection of critical essays on the works of George Orwell.
George Orwell's 1984
George OrwellA dramatized version of the novel that depicts life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
1984:
George OrwellGeorge Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four is perhaps the most pervasively influential book of the twentieth century, making famous Big Brother, newspeak and Room 101.
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
PreviewThis 2007 Companion is a collection of essays on the life and works of George Orwell.
George Orwell: A Humanistic Perspective
Adibur RahmanThe Book Projects George Orwell Not Only As A Political Satirist Or A Polemicist But Also As A Complete Novelist And Connoisseur Of Varied Nuances Of Literature With His Firm Assertion In Man S Dignity And Human Potentialities (Nineteen ...
George Orwell's Animal Farm
Harold BloomDiscusses the characters, plot, and writing of Animal farm by George Orwell. Includes critical essays on the novel and a brief biography of the author.
Animal Farm and 1984
George OrwellANIMAL FARM George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture.
By Blood We Live (The Last Werewolf 3)
Glen DuncanPublished in Great Britain in 2014 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE www.canongate.tv 1 Copyright © Glen Duncan, 2014 Extract from NineteenEightyFour by George Orwell (Copyright © George Orwell, 1948).
It is what I think, 1947-1948
George OrwellMuch of 1947 and 1948 was taken up with Orwell's struggle to complete 1984 and his fight against illness.
Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial ...
Phillip WegnerFor a discussion of Orwell's relationship to contemporary socialist and communist theory and practice, see Alex Zwerdling, Orwell and the Left (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1974), chap. 1. Zwerdling maintains that while Orwell saw ...
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Thomas E. RicksIn the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies.
Orwell and Marxism: The Political and Cultural Thinking of ...
Philip Bounds'Orwell and Marxism' offers a thorough introduction to Orwell the intellectual, reviving his reputation as a serious cultural thinker and documenting his most important influences, as well as a convincing portrait of British Marxism and ...
Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest
Peter HuberIn 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.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George OrwellThis is a sinister and sensual stage adaptation of Orwells classic.
The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George ...
George OrwellContents: v1, An age like this, 1920-1940.--v2, My country right or left, 1940-1943.--v3, As I please, 1943-1945.--v4, In front of your nose, 1945-1950
Animal Farm
George OrwellGrim tale of a totalitarian state inhabited by animals. A political metaphor.
Orwell in Context: Communities, Myths, Values
Ben ClarkeThe book uses a wide range of literary, historical and theoretical texts to argue that Orwell's radicalism lay in his attempt to integrate 'traditional' communal identities into a revolutionary socialist politics.
Things I Don't Want to Know
Deborah LevyTaking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thrilling reflections on the writing life, this is a perfect companion not just to Orwell's essay, but also to Levy's own, essential oeuvre.
The Brothel Boy: A Fragment of a Manuscript
George OrwellConcerns a manuscript attributed to Eric Blair.
1984:
George OrwellNo one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions -a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Orwell and Marxism: The Political and Cultural Thinking of ...
Philip Bounds18 Keith Alldritt and Patrick Reilly have both made a similar point about the links between Orwell's portrait of Bozo and his later writings on totalitarianism. I had not read their work at the time when I wrote this chapter. See Keith Alldritt, The ...
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