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January 11, 2024

Orwell’s Faded Lion The Moral Atmosphere of Britain 1945-2015

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Free Download Anthony James, "Orwell’s Faded Lion: The Moral Atmosphere of Britain 1945-2015"
English | 2015 | pages: 170 | ISBN: 184540758X | EPUB | 1,7 mb
Orwell’s Faded Lion traces the history of Britain from the end of the Second World War, during the darkest days of which George Orwell wrote The Lion and the Unicorn, calling for a British revolution, to the present. The book confronts the actual direction taken by British society against the background of the high hopes of the generation that survived the war. The book also considers Britain alongside its European neighbours, drawing upon personal experiences of living and travelling widely in Europe, as well as experience of left-wing party politics and of the Northern Ireland situation in the 1980s.

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January 11, 2024

George Orwell The Ethics of Equality

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English | ISBN: 0197627404 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 962 KB + 12 MB
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell’s work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell’s written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell’s corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions.

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January 10, 2024

Orwell’s Island George, Jura and 1984

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Free Download Orwell’s Island: George, Jura and 1984 by Les Wilson
English | September 21, 2023 | ISBN: 1913393771 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 1.6 MB
Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism, and essays that came to define the twentieth century, George Orwell was an unmatched political visionary, shining a light on the insidious nature of propaganda. Yet this chronicler of war, social injustices and urban poverty spent his later years living in a rustic abandoned farmhouse that was miles from the nearest neighbor. His rural escape was on the remote Scottish island of Jura-another paradox, given that he had harbored an irrational prejudice against Scotland for much of his life.

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January 8, 2024

Orwell On Truth (2024)

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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1328507866, 0358065054 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 4.7 mb
Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known. In Orwell on Truth, excerpts from across Orwell’s career show how his writing and worldview developed over the decades, profoundly shaped by his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, and further by World War II and the rise of totalitarian states. In a world that seems increasingly like one of Orwell’s dystopias, a willingness to speak truth to power is more important than ever. With Orwell on Truth, readers get a collection of both powerful quotes and the context for them.

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December 29, 2023

CliffsNotes on Orwell’s Animal Farm

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Free Download Daniel Moran, "CliffsNotes on Orwell’s Animal Farm"
English | 2000 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0764586696 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, Descriptions, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

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September 28, 2023

Orwell The Life

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English | 2015 | pages: 500 | ISBN: 0099283468, 0805074732 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
In the last half-century, George Orwell’s "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" have sold over 40 million copies. The adjective ‘Orwellian’ is now a byword for a particular way of thinking about life, literature and language, while Orwell himself has become one of the most potent and symbolic figures in western political thought. Despite this iconic status, Orwell (born Eric Blair) remains an enigma: a passionate democratic socialist steeped in the worst illusions of his Edwardian boyhood, a bitter critic of totalitarianism who concealed a pronounced authoritarian streak, a supporter of social equality who promptly put his adoptive son down for Eton. His progress through the literary world of the 1930s and 40s was characterised by the myths he built around himself. Whether as a reluctant servant of the Raj in 1920s Burma, a mock down-and-out in inter-war England or a Republican volunteer in Spain, he fashioned an image that was often sharply at odds with the real circumstances of his life. Drawing on a mass of previously unseen material, including interviews with friends and people who knew him in his years of obscurity, D. J. Taylor offers a strikingly human portrait of the writer too often embalmed as a secular saint. Here is a man who, for all his outward unworldliness, effectively stage-managed his own life; who combined chilling detachment with warmth and gentleness, disillusionment with hope; who battled through illness to produce two of the greatest masterpieces of the twentieth century. Moving and revealing, Taylor’s "Orwell" is the biography we have all been waiting for, as vibrant, powerful and resonant as its extraordinary hero.

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