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Free Download Mark Connelly, "George Orwell: A Literary Companion "
English | ISBN: 1476666776 | 2018 | 210 pages | PDF | 2 MB
George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. His well-known essays "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant" are widely anthologized and often taught in college composition classes. The writer is credited with inventing the terms "Big Brother," "thought crime," "unperson" and "double think." His name itself has become an adjective-"Orwellian."

Free Download George Orwell and Russia by Masha Karp
English | June 15, 2023 | ISBN: 1788317130, 1788317122 | True EPUB/PDF | 312 pages | 1.5/23 MB
For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell’s masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp – Russian Features Editor at the BBC World Service for over a decade – explores how Orwell’s work was received in Russia, when it percolated into the country even under censorship.

Free Download Alberto Lazaro, "The Road from George Orwell: His Achievement and Legacy"
English | 2001 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 3906766799, 0820453374 | PDF | 1,1 mb
Fifty years after his death, George Orwell is generally recognised as a leading exponent of twentieth-century English prose and one of the most influential satiric writers whose work has continually raised all kinds of political controversies. This volume assembles twelve papers delivered at the VIII Jornadas de Literatura Inglesa at the University of Alcalá in May 2000. The conference set out to re-examine Orwell’s work and thought in the light of contemporary theoretical concerns, as well as to discuss the mark he has left in British literature in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly on political satire and the development of dystopian fiction. A first group of essays provides new insights and fresh ways of viewing familiar issues such as Orwell’s controversial political thought, the representation of race and gender in his early fiction, the narrative strategies of his documentary prose and the impact of Spanish censorship on his writing, particularly on Homage to Catalonia. Other essays explore the legacy of Orwell’s dystopian fiction in later novelists such as Zoë Fairbairns, Alasdair Gray, Robert Harris, Julian Barnes and Ben Elton, as well as issues of history and language that are raised in Orwell’s writings and dominate twentieth-century fiction.

Free Download Laura Beers, Tanya Eby (Narrator), "Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century"
English | ASIN: B0D5DP8V45 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:27:00 | 178 MB
For the seventy-fifth anniversary of 1984, Laura Beers explores George Orwell’s still-radical ideas and why they are critical today.
George Orwell devoted his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own-rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies-make his writing even more of the moment. In Orwell’s Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell’s full body of work-his six novels, three nonfiction works, as well as his brilliant essays-to examine what "Orwellian" means and to take it out of the hands of political pundits. She explores how Orwell’s writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of "fake news," highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking, Orwell’s Ghosts investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.
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Free Download George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984 [TTC Audio]
English | April 04, 2024 | ASIN: B0CYTJVWTL | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 13m | 121 MB
Lecturer: Michael Shelden
While many literary works have transcended their own time to become beloved classics, few novels have remained quite as politically relevant as George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984. How has a book written in the 1940s-and set in a future that is now our past-become a cultural touchstone for every new generation of readers that encounters it? Why does Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian future seem to constantly reflect the conditions of the present?
In George Orwell: The Man and the Mind Behind 1984, Professor Michael Shelden will show you how the novel presents a plausible reality of thought control and totalitarian power that feels contemporary even as it reflects its own time. In five illuminating lectures, you will see how Orwell drew on his own experiences and observations of the post-war world to craft a universal story of human oppression. Along the way, you will see how Orwell:

Free Download Richard Bradford, "Orwell: A Man Of Our Time"
English | ISBN: 1448217687 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings.

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.

Free Download Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality "
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.

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.

Free Download Jeffrey Meyers, "George Orwell"
English | 1997 | pages: 408 | ISBN: 0415159237, 0500150168 | EPUB | 0,5 mb